Within a single household one can find a combination of occupations,
such as being farmers as wall as pickup owners for transportation,
or being farmers and rice millers.
Having various occupations means that the village economy is no longer self-sufficient and degree of specialization has been increasing. Villages have to rely more on outside market, actually a district town or provincial city, for selling their products as well as obtaining household necessities and the likes. Travelling to and from the city can be easily done through local pickups, buses and other transports. Local middlemen are also obvious. They buy crops from farmers and further sell them to big city-based merchants. These middlemen entrepreneurs are also innovators who introduce new cash crops to farmers whenever they see a market opportunity to trade on such crops. Relationships between farmers and middlemen trades are ambivalent. Many traders are at the same time moneylenders. A number of farmers are indebted to middlemen traders. Debts are paid in kinds after harvesting. Interest rate can be exorbitant. Rural indebtedness has long been a main problem for farmers in rural ares.