The Dispossession of the Peasantry (ص 105)

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The Dispossession of the Peasantry (ص 105)

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attempts at technical improvements. The wide annual fluctuations in rainfall
increased the risk of using resources for costly technical improvements: Insufficient
rain and thus a bad harvest spelled calamity for the peasants, many of whom were
in debt. Even in a good rain year, the failure of a new technical method would
have negative consequences.”
These problems were less pronounced on the plains and coastal areas: Not
only was rainfall relatively more plentiful, the climate more temperate, and the
terrain easier for cultivation, but also the underground water was easier to extract.
This allowed for the extensive spread of the irrigated citrus orchards and other
cash crops within the limits set by the ability to extract the water and the
availability of monetary resources with some, especially merchants and large-
landed individuals, who were the only ones who could make an investment that
would take several years before it provided a return (e.g., orange trees took about
seven years to bear fruit).
There were basically three groups that took advantage of the westward
expansion of cultivation.» First, there were both the inhabitants of nearby hill
villages and the nomadic tribes in the southern part of the country around Gaza.
However, for them, this practice was not new, but had been carried out previously
Sarah Graham-Brown, Palestinians and Their Society, 1880-1946 (London:
Quartet Books, 1980), 42-3.
bid.
“Montague Brown, “Agriculture,” in Himadeh, 139.
*Scholch, 112-113; Owen, Middle East, 174-5.
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