All rights reserved. But land is an assurance of food, come what may. Young men enjoy the liberties of the city and the feel of cash in their pockets, but the older men almost unanimously declare that they would far rather stay at home with their families and farm their land if only they had enough of it to be worth farming. Even if some say this only because they feel they are expected to, this response to expectation is in itself significant. For all its glitter even mIgrant labour is only an expedient to meet the shortage of land, and not desirable in itself, nor seen as a permanent part of a new way of life.
Most villagers conceive of the economic order as fixed, and have no thought of permanent changes.
Nevertheless in most, if not all villages, a small number of men are endowed with the necessary resources for, and capable of, trying out new ideas. The most obvious type of experiment is a shop. Probably at least some of these were intended to be permanent, but the entrepreneur lacked the necessary skill and experience. On a much larger scale was investment in lorries. I was told that, when the road from Tomarza through Sakaltutan to Kayseri was opened in 1947, the first men of Tomarza to put lorries into service had made fabulous profits.