Agricultural Development in the West Bank (ص 160)
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- Agricultural Development in the West Bank (ص 160)
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rinking water« This problem makes it
5. Occasional shortages in d
e drinking water for large
sometimes difficult to supply adequat
flocks in eastern and southern hills. The problem is rendered
more acute in view of remoteness from municipal water supplies
ns used for collecting
and the gradual breakdown of cister
season. Shortage of drinking water
runoff water in the rainy
o severe that it limits th
gh the rainless summer months
is sometimes s e size of flocks
which could be supported throu
extending from April through October.
htering of new lamb flocks. A common practice is
6. Early slaug)
re of the new lamb and kid flocks
to dispose of the greater sha
long before making satisfacto:
the number of heads slaughtered
at an early age, ry use of their
growth potential. Counting on
in municipal slaughter- houses (about half of all animals
slaughtered) the ratio of sheep slaughtered in 1978/79
amounted to 27 percent of the total population, and that of
goats was 20 percent.? This means that about half of the
sheep and goat population is slaughtered annually. Raisers
are obliged to follow this unpleasant practice for fear
of severe drought hazards and mounting credit obligations.
Cattle
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Number and distribution
There are two major types of cattle on the West Bank, one is
Nn indigenous breed called Baladi and the other consists of
improved strains which are mainly Holstein Freisians. According
to the latest data (1980), there were 6,131 Baladi cows and 2,512
°f improved strains (see Table IX-10). Adding to these 5,200,
Snscisicpemeeneenerememeiis
1,
ee from slaughter figures published in the Administered
Territories Statistics Quarterly 1980, op cit, p 40. Total
AL sheep and goat populations is quoted from official
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heifers, ca
, ves, and bulls brings the total number of cattle to
3,843." This r
epresents a substantial drop from the 1966 aggregate
figure of 3.
4,492 heads, consisting of 30,604 Raladis and 3,888
of foreign breeds.”
Table (1x - 10
Number of milking cows, 1980
District Baladi Improved Total
Total 6,131 2,512 8,643
Jenin 2,045 285 2,330
Tulkarm 854 528 1,382
Nablus 1,917 678 2,595
Ramallah 682 216 898
Jerusalem 112 112
Jericho a 97 97
Bethlehem 10 146 156
Hebron 623 450 1,073
Sor : Fi
urce: Files of the Department of Agriculture.
es the crudeness of data released during the Jordanian
me Israeli rules, the drop in the population of cattle has been
tn Of the most significant features in post-occupation agriculture.
is was most Pronounced in relatively large flocks kept on
ans farms. After several years of gradual decline, most
ae farms have closed down totally and their owners switched
ther forms of business.* The dynamics of this phenomenon will
be eval
uated when assessing the profitability of this type of
a
riculture.
FB
files of the pepartment of Agriculture,
A
Agricultural Atlas of Jordan, op cit, pp 88-90.
*
A
pa
rticularly pronounced example was the closure of Waheed
Sr.
i's dairy farm in Nablus (around 50 heads), which was a
Ma,
thriy,
K ‘ing enterprise for more than 20 years prior to occupation. - تاريخ
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- المنشئ
- Hisham Masoud Awartani
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