The Dispossession of the Peasantry (ص 181)
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4. AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION
This chapter includes a detailed investigation of the growth in agricultural
production with special attention to cash crops. It illustrates the increased
integration of Palestinian agriculture with the world market by way of figures on
imports and exports. Distinction is made between Jewish European and Arab
cultivation but at the same time it examines the nature of their interaction. It also
examines, when appropriate, different government policies including trade policies
as they affected agricultural production as a whole and their various impact on
Arab and Jewish European agriculture.
There was substantial growth in the agricultural crop production during the
Mandate. This can be clearly seen whether measured in tonnage or value of output:
The volume of output, excluding citrus, increased from 217,023 tons to 637,263
tons from 1921 to 1944, respectively,' an almost 200 percent increase; as for
value, there are no figures available for the earlier period of the Mandate, but the
value of output, excluding citrus, increased from £P 4,046,219 to £P 18,388,505
in current pounds between 1937 and 1944, respectively.” Yet, within this
aggregate picture lies significant variation at different levels: (a) the variation in
growth between crops, (b) the variation between European and Arab agriculture in
Abstract 1936, 32; and Abstract 1944/45, 226.
*Abstract 1939, 41; and Abstract 1944/45, 226.
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