Besides farmers and wage-labourers, other occupations are wealthy landowners,
crop buyers, pickup owners, rice millers, carpenters, barbers, shop and food stores
owners. Fishing and animal raisings --cattle, pigs and chicken-- are also common in any
villages. Within a single household one can find a combination of occupations, such as
being farmers as well as pickup owners for transportation, or being farmers and rice
millers. Having various occupations means that the village economy is no longer selfsufficient
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 area.