Includes appendices.

The Survey setting and sample farms -- Evolution of the Central Luzon loop survey -- The survey setting -- The Sample farms -- Household and farm characteristics -- Farm operator profile -- The Farm household demographic profile -- Farm characteristics -- Land ownership and tenure distribution -- Changes in cropping intensity -- Trends in rice productivity -- trends in yield by season -- Trends in yield by ecosystem -- Trends in yield by land ownership -- Changes in crop management practices and input use -- Fertilizer use -- Comparative fertilizer use by season -- Comparative fertilizer use by ecosystem -- Fertilizer management practices -- Pesticide use -- Trends in insecticide application -- Weed control practices -- Herbicide use -- Handweeding -- Labor use for rice production -- labor use by activity -- Labor use by source -- Historical changes in the adoption of new technologies in rice production -- Varietal adoption through time -- Adoption of labor - saving technologies -- Profitability analysis -- Methodology -- rice price and gross revenue -- Cost, income, and profit -- Factor share analysis -- Case studies : looking beyond the survey data to family and farming issues -- An enterprising woman farmer -- Living with natural disasters and development -- Three generations of rice farmers: the case of fully irrigated rice farm in Nueva Ecija -- A diversified rainfed farm Pangasinan -- A Self- financing farm : conversion of fallow land to commercial use -- A Fulfilled father and a farmer .