This study attempts to identify the impacts of land tenure institutions on the efficiency of farm management based on a case study of lowland paddy (rice) and upland cinnamon production in customary land areas of Sumatra. While the traditional joint-family ownership system is found to exist in paddy land, more individualised ownership systems are widely observed in upland areas. Yet, we found no statistical evidence that residual profit per unit of land is affected by land tenure institutions in either the lowlands or uplands, indicating that the prevailing land tenure institutions are equally conducive to efficient farm management.
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https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8489.00150Altmetric score:
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Publication year
2001
Authors
Suyanto S W; Tomich T P; Otsuka K
Language
English
Keywords
agroforestry systems, cinnamon, crop production, income generation, land management, land tenure, rice
Geographic
Indonesia
