Metayage 佃农
![Contract for metayage, papyrus, 35th year of Amasis II (533 BC, 26th Dynasty)](/Images/godic/202501/27/Louvres-antiquites-egyptiennes-img_27135807.jpg")
The Metayage system (French:métayage, Spanish:aparcería, Italian:mezzadria) is the cultivation of land for a proprietor by one who receives a proportion of the produce, as a kind of sharecropping. Another class of land tenancy in France is named fermage, whereby the rent is paid annually in banknotes.