Colonial Capitalism and Rural Class Formation (ص 201)

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Colonial Capitalism and Rural Class Formation (ص 201)

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to the development of ownership of land under this crop.
Table i0 shows the development of citrus plantation and the share of
each “sector™ in this development.
Table 10
Area Under Citrus Plantation, Divided Between Arabs and Jews
Year Total Area Arab Share % Jewlsh Share %
(Dunams ) (Dunams) * (Dunams )
1922 32,000 22,000 68.0 10,000 31.0
1926 42,000 25,000 59.5 17,000 40.4
1930 110,000 50,000 45.5 60,000 54.5
1932 150,000 50,000 33.3 100,000 660.7
1934 250,000 105, 006 42.0 145,000 58.9
1939 299,500 144,500 48.2 155,000 51.8
Sources: International Labour Review, 1930,Vol. XXX, No.6 p. 8908;
Survey of Palestine, 1945-46, Chapt. IX, p. 379.
* (Figures on Arab ownership are not available. Figures in this Table
are reached by deducting Jewish ownership from the total amount of
land. Moreover, this table excludes a small group of plantation owners
who were neither Jewish nor Arabs).
This Table shows that Jewish ownership of land under citrus rose
rapidly during the first two decades of British rule. During the first
10 years, from 1922-32, citrus plantation under European Jewish
ownership mushroomed both relatively and in absolute terms. From
10,000d. of citrus plantations in 1922, European Jewish ownership rose
to 155,000d or by over 15 times in 1932. And from 31 per cent of the
total plantations in 1922, their ownership rose to 66.7 per cent in
1932. In contrast, however, Arab ownership, while showing absolute
increase in the size of area had declined from 68 per cent of the
total plantation in 1922 to only 33.3 per cent in 1932.
Nonetheless, data on the advantages of the European Jewish citrus
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