The Dispossession of the Peasantry (ص 228)
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cases, there was no irrigation of fields. In the case of wheat,’ Jewish European
farms yielded more than ninety kilograms per dunum, while Arab peasants yielded
less than sixty kilograms per dunum.'* The source of this difference in yield was
the modern methods of production, namely the heavy use of fertilizers, the
extended system of crop rotation, and improved seeds—all of which were available
to the Jewish European farmers, but only in a very limited degree to the Arab
peasants as will be shown in the section on methods of production.
In addition, there was the difference in the degree of mechanization in the
cultivation of wheat and durra (as well as in all other cereals), where the Jewish
European farms were highly mechanized” as in the use of tractors and
combines, while rarely used on Arab lands. However, the Arab wheat cultivator
faced not only the calamities of nature, debt, lack of resources to improve land
productivity, and insufficient government support, but also contradictory
government policies.
Article 18 of the Mandate, besides stipulating that there should be no trade
discrimination against members of the League of Nations, gave the government the
'3No similar figures could be derived for durra because aggregate data were
not broken down between the two “communities” for sufficient years, but available
information suggests a similar gap in output per dunum.
24Nathan et al., 460; for different but close estimates, see Johnson-Crosbie
Report, 8, 30, and Brown, “Agriculture,” 128.
In the mid-thirties, the proportional use of tractors on the Jewish European
collective farms was comparable to that of the U.S. farms; see Horowitz and
Hinden, 42.
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