About fifteen years have passed since the farmers became engaged in rice double cropping culture in the Muda area. In the mean time in this agricultural society, the following three situations have developed conspicuously: a rapid differentiation of peasantry, the large inroads made by the contractors into the production process, and the gradual diffusion of mechanization among owner operators and part owner-part tenant operators.
Under these conditions the outlook for the owner operators should be analyzed namely, the prospects for those farmers who will bear the process of rice production by their own labor and equipment. Under the current conditions, their paddy fields are considerably larger than the average and they own a pedestrian tractor for which they paid a sum of money ranging from M$1,600 to 5,000. This paper reports the present conditions of farm management for these farmers and points out their problems.