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Sharecropping

What is sharecropping?

Sharecropping is a permissible form of harvest sharing where a tenant farmer (sharecropper) enters into an agreement with a landowner for both to share an agreed upon percentage of the farmer’s harvest in exchange for the right to use the landowner’s land.

It is a condition for the validity of a sharecropping agreement that the following be agreed upon beforehand: the duration of the sharecropping agreement; the landowner’s contribution (i.e. land, seed, means of production); the sharecropper’s contribution (i.e. labor, seed, means of production); the type of agricultural produce (though it is permissible for both parties to agree to leave this up to the sharecropper to independently decide later); and the division of the harvest yield (to which both are entitled to share).

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