Farmers and Peasants in Difference

Even though farmers and peasants work in the same field, in reality they have three main differences. The first difference between both of them is about the size of their farmland. Farmers control more than 1/6 Ha farmland. In contrast, peasants just restrain less of it. They also differ in work management. In the planting season, farmers start to till their land by hiring farm workers until all the work is finished. Because of their large land, they need more power to cover all work. Though farmers have some planting skills, they rather take part as managers on their farming. On the other hand, peasants are used to working on their land by themselves. Due to their lack of land and assets, they cannot afford the payment of farm workers. Then the final difference is that farmers have more freedom to choose various kinds of plants for food to plant. They could be from main crops until horticultural ones. In contrast, peasants have no other option to plant beside paddy, corn and cassava. The same reason behind this is just the same with the previous two differences. They are about the lack of land and assets of peasants. Planting various kinds of crops need a big cost of production and a larger land either. If peasants insist to plant them, their farming will not be efficient or even they will get broke. Therefore, peasants are used to be called as small-scale farmers, and they are poorer than farmers.

Dian Pratiwi Pribadi