


Some irrigation works have been dug, but landholding units have been unable to coordinate in buying tools, planning works, and assembling the necessary temporary workforce.

While the Boneh structure of “ideal ownership” is small enough to create community norms governing resource use within the collectives, individual Boneh have difficulty managing access to resources and capital. However, we have also noticed that the communal land holding structure that was instituted to avoid Islamic inheritance law has created many issues of its own. Agricultural productivity has increased, with no appreciable increase in the numbers of rural unemployed and a minor increase in the amount of land under cultivation. For the most part, they have been good ones. Our previous land reform experiment in the dry zone of Garmsar has begun to produce results.
