The Dispossession of the Peasantry (ص 231)

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The Dispossession of the Peasantry (ص 231)

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In any development process, which, of course, implies structural change, it
would be expected that the area cultivated with wheat and durra would decrease as
intensive methods were introduced, or, alternatively, output would increase with
the same amount of land. In the case of Arab peasants, neither occurred. This is in
spite of the overall growth and development of the agricultural branch in Palestine
as a whole.
Thus, what this situation points to is the extreme unevenness of the process
of growth and development in Palestine, both between the Jewish European and
Palestine Arab populations, and within the latter as will be more fully argued later.
What this also meant was that only a small number of peasants gained from this
process. This, in turn, gives more credence to those bankers who held that the
peasants’ debt was still “considerable” as compared to bankers who thought that it
was “negligible” in the 1940s as a result of the increase in cereal prices.'*
4.3 Animal Husbandry
Animal husbandry in Palestine, as in other primarily agricultural societies,
was an integral part of the Arab rural economy. Animals were the major source of
protein (meat, eggs, and dairy products) and of fertilizers (manure) in the mainly
extensive system. They were also used for transportation and more importantly for
agricultural work (e.g., plowing and threshing). In addition, they were a source of
supplementary income whenever surpluses of proteins were sold on the market or
SIbid., 365-6.
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