🔤 Cornacre ✨

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chhota khet, fasal ke liye kiraye ki zameen, patti zameen, fasal pattah, kheti zameen

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cornacre

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DEFINITION

a system of renting small patches of land for a single crop season

EXAMPLE SENTENCES

Poor tenant farmers relied heavily on the cornacre system to grow seasonal potato crops. The landowner offered several acres under the cornacre arrangement during the spring season. Historical economic studies detail how the cornacre system affected nineteenth century agricultural labor. Farmers paid rent for their cornacre plot after harvesting their single annual grain crop. Losing access to cornacre land caused severe financial hardship for local peasant families.

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land lease land plot plot subtenancy tenure