菲律宾水稻平原的村民再也不是主要从事农田耕种了。由于少地或无地的家庭数目日益增多,他们便依赖于农村雇佣职业与非农工作。这些情况归因于人口增长、土地碎散,以及当地经济的日益商品化。伴随着这些变化而来的是,由土地占有不均和农村商人崛起(他们形成了与原有地主权贵并驾齐驱的新的有势力阶层)所导致的农村家庭进一步分化。 The villagers in the Philippine Rice Plain are no longer mainly engaged in farmland cultivation. Because of the growing number of families with little or no land, they depend on rural employment and non-agricultural work. These conditions are attributed to population growth, the fragmentation of the land, and the increasingly commercialization of the local economy. What followed these changes was the further differentiation of rural families caused by the uneven land tenure and the rise of rural merchants, who formed a new and powerful class with former landowners.