by ESTRELLA F. CATARATA | FARDEC
In 2004, the Central Visayas Farmers Development Center (FARDEC) conducted a study on Bohol rice farmers’ situation and production. Research was done in Ubay, the province’s top rice-producing municipality. Most of Ubay’s farmers are tenants, each tilling a hectare of land on average. The prevailing sharing scheme is “one-fourth – three-fourths”, where the landowner gets a quarter of the gross income from the harvest, and the rest goes to the tenants.
