Agricultural Development in the West Bank (ص 77)

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Agricultural Development in the West Bank (ص 77)

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such as suppliers of farming inputs.
Rven if the figures on the nunber of cooperatives and membership
are taken at their face value, it fe still noted that the number
of farmers who were members of cooperatives was relatively small,
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Since it did not exceed 19 percent of al) farmers. Pesides, the
average size of loans advanced to menbers was only JD 51 per
farmer (computed from Table 1V-3), which was considerably smaller
then the needs of farmers for seasoml credit.
All these indicators point to a modest performance, even by the
Standards of 1966. Other sources of agricultural credit were
mich more important in meeting development needs. The Agricultural
Credit Corporation, for instance, had by June 1967 an outstanding
Volume of loans in the West Bank of about JD 1.7 million’, which
was about five times the amount of loans advanced to cooperatives.
Agricultural companies, in fact, were far more instrumental in
meeting credit needs of farners, mainly in the form of deferred
Pay
'yment of farm supplies. The two Poultry feedmills which were
An interview with the Deputy Director General of the
Agricultural Credit Corporation, September 15th, 1981.
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in operation 1n 1966, for example, had by the end of 1966
outstanding credit sales of Jp 0.3 whliton.?
A major source of probleme faced ty cooperatives prior to
occupation was the Jordan government's police of exercising what
might be described as paternal attitude: towarde cooperatives.
The government maintained the cooperative movement under its
implicit control and had run it in the light of its own priorities
And internal politics.” This seriously undermined the democratic
nature of cooperatives and curtailed their proficiency.
Conversely, the record of Jordan's agricultural development through
the middle sixties demonstrates clearly that it owes much more
to individual initiatives and private firms than to formal
Cooperative societies and public institutions.
Post-occupation developments
The sudden onset of Israeli occupation had immediate and far-
Teaching consequences on West Bank cooperatives. The head office
f the Jordan Cooperative Organization ordered a freeze on all
@ctivities of registered cooperatives, although it approved of
the re-opening of its three branch offices in Hebron, Jerusalem
8nd Nablus. Israeli authorities did not object specifically to
that, but they made it clear that they wanted no real activity to
take place.
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L. personal interviews at Jordan Provini and Feedina Feed Companies.
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Organization directly with the Prine Minister's Office.

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Hisham Masoud Awartani

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