Realist Methodology and the Articulation of Modes of Production (ص 327)

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Realist Methodology and the Articulation of Modes of Production (ص 327)

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crops, also produce significant quantities of field crops.
Only farming-landlords have amore diversified and less
Specialised production pattern and they produce Significant
quantities of vegetables, field crops and fruit, although
even they produce more vegetables than anything else. The
main feature which stands out in the aggregate figures is the
absolute importance of vegetabie production in terms of the
pattern of agricultural land use in the region.
Il. AGGREGATE AREA OF VEGETABLE CROP PRODUCTION
In this section I will describe the regional aggregate area
of vegetable crop production. The data show that the region
produced 14,464.5 dunums of i4 named vegetable crops (see
Table 55). Tomatoes were the singie most important crop and
they accounted for 39% of the total area of vegetable crop
production, followed by eggplants which accounted for 16% of
the total area. These two crops accounted for more than half
(55%) of the total land area utilised for vegetable
production. Moreover, four vegetables —- tomatoes, eggplants,
courgettes and cucumbers - accounted for three-quarters of
the total land area used in vegetable crop production. All of
these crops were largely produced using drip irrigation
equipment for specialised commodity production. Vegetable
staples, which might have been used for the internal
consumption of the peasant household, accounted for only 0.3%
of the land used; although crops produced for the vegetable
commodity market would of course also be used for household
subsistence consumption. Thus, the data bring out very
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