India - Economic Activities of the Tribals: NSS 44th Round, Schedule 29.2, July 1988 - June 1989

Information on the terms of lease on which the land has been leased out will be recorded in column (12) in terms of codes as specified below:

for fixed money ……………………………… 1
for fixed produce …………….. ………………2
for share of produce …………………………. 3
for share of produce with other terms ……….. 4
under usufructuary mortgage ……………….. 5
under other terms ……………………………. 9

It may be noted here that a lease agreement may be made verbally or in writing. Most of the terms are self- explanatory. However, it may be noted that household under crop sharing basis will mean that the owner of land receives a stipulated share of the produce but does not participate in the work nor does he organize or conduct agricultural operations on that plot of land which he has leased out. Further, usufructuary mortgage is a type of mortage in which the mortgagor (the person who mortgages the property) retains the ownership of his land but the possession of the land is transferred to the mortgagee (i.e. the person to whom the land is mortgaged) till the fore-closure of the deed.