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APPENDIX No. 9—RESOLUTION CONCERNING MEASURES TO FACILITATE THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE RESOLUTION CONCERNING AGRICULTURAL WAGES AND INCOMES OF PRIMARY PRODUCERS The Asian Regional Conference of the International Labour Organization, meeting at Nuwara Eliya, Ceylon, this 26th day of January, 1950 ; Having considered the question of agricultural wages and incomes of primary producers in Asia and problems connected therewith, And having adopted a resolution on this subject, Invites the Governing Body of the International Labour Office — (1) To arrange for such action to facilitate the implementation of the above resolution as can be undertaken by the International Labour Organization, including planning and assisting of detailed study of conditions of agricultural workers within as short a period as possible, and the consideration of such questions by the Permanent Agricultural Committee and by future Conferences. (2) To instruct the Office to study, through its Field Office and in co-operation with the Governments concerned, the special employment and training problems of agricultural man-power and, on the basis of this study, to develop a practical programme of action in this field within the framework of its general manpower programme. (3) To place on the agenda of the Permanent Agricultural Committee, or such other Committee or Subcommittee as the Governing Body may deem appropriate, items dealing with — (a) The problem of unemployment and underemployment in agriculture in Asia with a view to devising methods of providing agricultural workers with subsidiary sources of income ; and (b) The problem of loss of income due to flood, fire or other natural causes. APPENDIX No. 10—RESOLUTION CONCERNING THE STUDY OF CONDITIONS OF WORK OF CERTAIN TYPES OF RURAL WORKERS CoA'SiDEKiNG that the study of conditions of work and of remuneration of agricultural workers must necessarily relate to different categories of workers, including—(l) Those bound to the landowner by a contract of employment which establishes between them the relationship of wage-earner and employer, and which involves the payment of a wage in cash or in kind, in consideration of work performed ; and (2) Those who have no resources other than the product of their own labour, and are bound to the landowner by a relationship essentially based on custom which requires them, in return for the use of land for cultivation, and for loans of various kinds, to pay a due which is generally in the form of a part of the harvest, together with interest on the loans made ; Considering that these workers, who are included among primary producers, draw their subsistence entirely from the product of labour performed on lands owned by other persons and do not enjoy the benefit of any regulation nor any measures of protection ; Considering that this in fact constitutes a particular form of contract of employment which, with certain regional variations, applies to millions of workers in the countries of Asia :

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