The pattern of off-farm employment (OFE) is different because of different conditions and of the different strategies of farmers. Some farmers carry out off-farm activities permanently; others do so on1y seasonally. Some farmers find off-farm jobs outside local areas, others hold them within local areas. We can thus group off-farm  mp10yment into four patterns. The first pattern is with respect to OFE within local areas seasonally. These labourers often carry out farm activities concurrently. The second one relates to perament OFE within local areas. Most of the labourers who work in rural enterprises belong to this pattern. The third one is seasona1 OFE outside 10ca1 areas. This kind of also does farm work concurrent1y. Often they carry out off-farm activities in cities or towns during slack seasons , and come back to do farm work during peak seasons.The last pattern concerns permanent OFE outside local areas. These labourers often transfer their contracted land to other farmers and find a permanent off-farm job outside the local areas.