The Dispossession of the Peasantry (ص 246)

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The Dispossession of the Peasantry (ص 246)

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European settlers.' The only other breakdown, and only for the pre-1940 period,
is according to district. No information is available on their exact uses or on
ownership distribution by villages, individuals, or cooperatives. As an illustration
of the degree on mechanization or European cereal farms, it has been pointed out
that on some farms (i.e., collective ones) the hectares per tractor used was
comparable to that in the United States and Great Britain in the 1930s, “although
the degree of mechanization in Jewish farming as a whole is very much lower.”*
During WWII and as part of its efforts to increase agricultural production,
the government launched a program in which it distributed machinery to European
and Arab cultivators on a “lease/lend” basis. In 1943, Arab cultivators received
“twenty five tractors, twenty seven plows, one combine, one mower, and one
sweep rake,” while at the same time European “cultivators received fifty nine
tractors, forty eight plows, thirty one combines, twenty nine mowers, and four
sweep rakes.”* In addition, by December 1943, the government embarked on the
importation of “410 tractors, 254 ploughs and 120 combine harvesters.” Of the
first two, it is not clear how many were distributed, but the Survey claims that they
had “been practically equally shared between Jewish and Arab farmers.” As for
the “combine harvesters 76 were released to Jews and nine to Arabs. ”*
1See Kamen, 220-1.
*Horowitz and Hinden, 42.
3Kamen, 216.
‘Survey II, 1031.
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