The Dispossession of the Peasantry (ص 222)

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The Dispossession of the Peasantry (ص 222)

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Perhaps this sizable contribution explains the government’s strict regulation
of tobacco and its disregard for complaints by peasants regarding the ordinance that
not only required a license for cultivation, but also the specification that a
minimum of two dunums is required for tobacco cultivation, a figure that was
jointly agreed upon by the Department of Agriculture and Customs and the
growers and manufacturers.‘ These complaints were echoed by Simpson, who
wrote:
The reason why the minimum was fixed at two dunums was
doubtless to check the consumption of unexcised tobacco. In fact,
however, it precludes the poorer man from cultivating a crop which
gives a high return. It is desirable that the minimum area should be
fixed at a lower figure than two dunums. Half a dunum appears a
sufficiently high minimum. . . . [Another complaint concerned the
provision that] renders it a criminal offense for the cultivator to
smoke his own home-grown tobacco.!”
Although the cultivation of tobacco was primarily carried out by Arab
growers, |’
its manufacture involved Arabs and Jewish Europeans. By 1939,
there were thirteen factories manufacturing tobacco products of which six were
Arab owned and seven were Jewish European owned.’® The value of production
of the latter factories was greater than the Arab-owned ones in 1939, but by 1942,
the situation was reversed.’” The greater output by Arab industrial undertakings
15H ope-Simpson Report, 100-1.
Thid., 101.
Gurevich, Handbook, 155; Brown, “Agriculture,” 64.
8 Survey I, 458.
'For values of output, see Abstract 1944/45, 54-5, 59-60.
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