The authors focus on tests of labour aggregation and profits maximising behaviour of farmers in a village in Bangladesh. Special emphasis is placed on the role of farm size and tenancy status. The results reported in the article indicate that farmers whose operated areas and/or tenancy states...

A sample of smallholding farmers in the Pabna region of Bangladesh provides data to test predictions of a safety-first model and of a profit maximisation model of farmer behaviour. Of two sets of predictions, the data tend to support those of the safety-first model more frequently than they...