Wheat and rye are the main crops, with fruit and vegetables to a small extent. Holdings are divided into a number of small plots. The size of holdings per household is declining with the increase of population, because children divide their father's land equally between them. Daughters sometimes take a share with their brothers, sometimes they do not. A system of share-cropping is found but the arrangement is always a temporary matter from season to season.
Ownership carries the right of sale.
It is defined mainly by village memory of acquisition and by use. An examination of income from land and of essential outgo shows that about forty acres is necessary for a household of average size, to provide not only for substance, but for weddings and new buildings, and give some security against bad harvests and other misfortunes. There is little casual labour in the village. Skilled craftsmen, such as builders, carpenters, ironworkers, work in the villages, often as a supplement to tilling their fields. Some trade in animals and agricultural products goes on in the villages.