Agricultural Development in the West Bank (ص 147)
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8. Vegetable Crops
The rainfed production vegetables is
s of West Bank agriculture.
which shows that the total
» relatively, the least
This is
important of all pattern
well illustrated in Table (VIII-10),
area under vegetables (1980) is estimated at 110,000 donums, ie.
about one fifth of the area under field crops and only 13 percent
of the area under fruit trees. About 57 percent of all vegetable
areas are rainfed, and the rest is irrigated. But the relative
share of the former in produce is much lower than that of irrigated
vegetables, often around one fourth of total vegetable produce.
Table (v1zI - 10)
Area and total production of vegetables (1966, 1960)
(Area in thousand donums and output in thousand tons)
Irrigated Rainfed Total
dons tons dons tons dons tons
Total ~ 1966 93.1* 112.7 142.6 57-4 235.7 170.1
Total ~ 1980 47.1 143.0 62.5 49.7 109.6 192.72
Major crops (1980):
Tomato 8.9 35.7 13,0 10,1 21.9 45.8
Cucumber 9.0 18.7 - - 9.0 18.7
Potato 4.2 5.9 0.8 0.6 5.0 6.5
Melons «« 1.4 3.0 13.8 14.6 15.2 17.6
Squash 5.2 10.1 5.5 3.3 10.7 13.4
Snakecucumber - - 5.9 3.6 5.9 3.6
Okra 0.4 0.03 5.1 2.3 5.1 2.3
Onions (dry) 0.2 0.5 8.7 8.4 8.9 8.9
Onions (seeds) 0.017 0.017 3.7 0.087 3.9 0.104
*
Includes irrigated and non-irrigated winter crops.
+
Includes cantaloupes and watermelons,
Sources: Files of the Department of Agriculture.
» QD cit,
Table (VIII-10) reveals also that there has been a substantial drop
in the area and output of vegetable crops in the post-occupation era.
This can be explained in the light of the following changes:
1. The sharply reduced availability of non-marketable family
labour.
2. Abunda:
nt supply of vegetables at reasonable prices, throughout
most of the year.
3. Closure of extensive land areas, some of which were used prior
to occupation for growing vegetables and field crops.
Production of vegetables under dry farming conditions is necessarily
restricted to those areas which receive adequate rainfall in the
xainy season. Consequently, no such crops are grown on the eastern
Slopes, the Jordan valley, or the south eastern hills of Hebron
district. According to the data for 1980 (see Table VIII-11), it
is noticed that about half of all rainfed vegetable crops are grown
in Jenin district, which combines the advantages of mild topography
and above-average rainfall. Hebron district comes next, producing
tomatoes and squash.
Table (vrr1 - 11)
Regional distribution of rainfed vegetable crops
(1980)
Area
2000 don % of total
Total 62,577 100.0
Yenin 27,893 44.6
Nikarn 5,932 9.5
“blus 4,832 7.7
*amaltah 7,126 11.4
Jerusalem
Wrichs _ .
**thlehen 3,699 5.9
" "ron 13,905 20.9 - تاريخ
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- Hisham Masoud Awartani
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