自じ小こ作さく

noun

landed and tenant farming; part-owner, part-tenant farming

Agricultural term for a farming operation where the farmer owns some land and also rents additional land. Often contrasted with 自作 (full owner farming) and 小作 (full tenant farming).

• 戦せん前ぜんの日本にほんでは、自じ小こ作さく農のう家かが多おおく見みられた。

  In prewar Japan, many farmers were part-owner, part-tenant.

• 彼かれは自じ小こ作さく経けい営えいで、自じ分ぶんの田たんぼと借かりた畑はたけの両りょう方ほうで米こめを作つくっている。

  He runs a part-owner, part-tenant operation, growing rice on both his own paddy and rented fields.