Shigetomi Shinichi
Sojourn. 2004;19(1):28-50. doi: 10.1355/sj19-1b.
Farming households with close kinship ties in northeast Thailand have long been practising joint utilization of farmland. They used this multihousehold farming method even more actively to cope with the macroeconomic development beginning in the 1960s. A 1989 survey of a village by the author found more than one-third of farmland under such communal use. However, the share decreased drastically by 2000, Economic growth has reached a point where farmers have to discard the communal system and introduce a market system of land utilization, such as sharecropping even between households of close kin.
泰国东北部有密切亲属关系的农户长期以来一直实行农田的联合利用。从20世纪60年代开始，为应对宏观经济发展，他们更加积极地采用这种多户家庭耕作方式。作者在1989年对一个村庄进行的调查发现，超过三分之一的农田处于这种公共使用状态。然而，到2000年，这一比例急剧下降。经济增长已达到这样一个程度，即农民不得不摒弃公共制度，引入土地利用的市场制度，比如即使是近亲家庭之间的佃耕制度。
