The Dispossession of the Peasantry (ص 263)

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The Dispossession of the Peasantry (ص 263)

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students remained more or less the same by 1943-1944.
Agricultural research was done by the government’s Department of
Agriculture and by Jewish European institutions. However, the work done by the
latter was more extensive and had access to more resources than that of the
government’s research departments.*®
It is clear from the substantial growth in Jewish European agricultural
schools and the establishment of research institutions that Zionist bodies attached
great importance to them. The rationale for this was the fact that the great majority
of settlers came from the urban areas of central and eastern Europe and thus had
no farming experience. The agricultural institutions provided support in each step
of the process in establishing a settlement.
These institutions assist the settlements with the preparation of plans
for establishing the settlement, the lay-out, design and construction
of buildings, acquisition of livestock and machinery, advice on crop
rotation, methods of sowing, planting, harvesting, control of pests
and diseases and farm management generally.”
Thus, the gap in the development of agricultural skills is easily accounted
for: While the settler agricultural community had the extensive support of Zionist
institutions as well as benefiting from some of the government’s programs, only
some of the Arab peasants could have benefited from the very limited support
provided by religious bodies and the government. The government’s scant support
48For more information on the nature of the research done, see Brown,
“Agriculture,” 191-9.
“Survey I, 379.
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