The Dispossession of the Peasantry (ص 193)

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The Dispossession of the Peasantry (ص 193)
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latter.'* As for output, it increased from 379 tons in 1942 to 3,020 tons in 1943,
and 2,138 tons in 1944.'° All of the enterprises were owned by Jewish
Europeans. '
As it took some time for the Jewish European enclave to “congeal,”'
including its agricultural output, it was Arab vegetable production that provided a
major portion of European Jewish vegetable consumption, especially for the urban
residents.
This is borne out by an analysis of the growth of European vegetable
cultivation, production, and imports juxtaposed with the consumption needs of the
total European Jewish population. The consumption needs are based on an estimate
of the per-capita consumption of vegetables of Jewish European settlers'® (see
Table 4.3).
The area cultivated with vegetables by European Jewish settlers was slow in
growth for most of the Mandate period. In 1927, there were only 1,366 irrigated
dunums and 7,826 unirrigated dunums, which seem to be abandoned in the
following years, so that by 1941, there was only 1,564 dunums of unirrigated
Gurevich, Handbook, 212.
survey I, 504, 516.
“Abstract, 1944/45, 59-60.
SThis term is borrowed from Owen, Studies, 5.
Gurevich, Handbook, 176.
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Riyad Mousa

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