Abstract
Bangladesh is one of the most densely populated countries with immense pressure on agricultural land in rural areas. Mainstream of the rural households depend on either agriculture or its associated activities for their livelihood. However, rural land distribution is highly skewed, majority of them are landless. Under such a land scarce situation, farmers in rural areas have been gradually inclining towards land tenancy. Present study steered to explore the nature and volume of temporary land transaction through tenancy agreement in studied areas and to scrutinize its role in aligning land distribution. In 2017, a total of 166 farmers were randomly selected from two different villages in Jashore district for study. Result of the study administrated that land tenancy practice has been significantly mitigating land disparity among rural farmers. Study also explored that comparatively rich farmers are leaning towards tenant out land and most of these lands tenanted in by the landless and marginal farmers. Consequently, on an average landless farm could significantly increases their cultivable land from 0.01 acre to 0.98 acre compared to the marginal farm 0.31 to 0.73 acres. At the same time, cultivable land of medium farm has decreased as of 3.74 acres to 2.83 acres in studied villages.
 Int. J. Agril. Res. Innov. Tech. 10(2): 164-169, December 2020
Highlights
Bangladesh is an agrarian country and land is considered as a very precious asset among the rural farm households
This study investigated the contribution of existing tenancy practices to mitigate the severe land scarcity among landless and marginal farmers
Land holding size is getting small to smaller and this process leads to the landlessness
Summary
Bangladesh is an agrarian country and land is considered as a very precious asset among the rural farm households. Landlessness often materializes the manifestation of poverty, datedness and powerlessness of the majority of rural households. This situation has been worsening gradually because of abnormal population pressure, dearth of land, low productivity in agriculture, split of family, river erosion and alteration of cultivable land in different purposes (Rahman and Manprasert, 2006; Rana et al, 2019). Under such a situation, land poor farmers find tenancy as an alternative and viable option to continue cultivation as well as utilize their spare family labor. In case of sharecropping agreement, International Journal of Agricultural Research Innovation & Technology An open access article under
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