Agricultural Development in the West Bank (ص 165)

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Agricultural Development in the West Bank (ص 165)

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Table (Ix - 13)
Production, consumption,
Expo: Imports Domestic Consumption
prone ie a Total-tons kg/capita/year
and trade of poultry
Poultry meat* (tons) tons (tons)
West Bank 3,569 - 8,431 12,000 17
*
Israel 188, 500 22,225 2,300 ~—-«'166,830 44
Jordan 12
Eeps (in million)**
West Bank 30.2 - 26.6 56.8 80
Israel 1772.3 150.6 15.2 1487.6 393
sane 110
* Converted to carcass weight at the dressing percentage of
71 percent.
** Converted from weight data at the rate of 55 grams per ego.
Source: 1. Administered territories Statistics Quarterly,
1980, No 1-2, op cit, p 103.
2. [sr
p 278.
3. Poultry International, Vol 20, No 8, August 1981,
pp 34~36.
The data in Table (Ix-13) indicates clearly that the size of the
Poultry industry and per capita consumption of eggs and broiler
Meat are still much smaller than those of Israel and Jordan.
Furthermore, it is clear that the West Bank has become heavily
dependent on imports from Israel for meeting its domestic demand.
Consequently, it derives from Israel around 70 percent of its meat
“UPply and 47 percent of its table eggs. This means that the West
Bank poultry industry has a long way to go before it can meet
local demand for poultry products. But in order to do so, it is
Thr,
St necessary to explore the dynamics underlying the erratic
development of poultry over the past fourteen years.
Besides being potentially a lucrative type of dry farming, poultry
Production is perceived by local experts as the most feasible
course of action for alleviating the chronic shortage in the West
Bank's animal protein supply. This is more true in the light of
the poor prospects for achieving a tangible rise in the supply of
red meat, fish, and milk products.
Husbandry practices
AS is the case in most forms of arid agriculture, poultry farming
is undertaken mostly as a side business-line in which owners
Provide the bulk of labour, capital, and management. (quite frequently,
even the sheds used by poultrymen are mobilized for this purpose
from old buildings which have a low opportunity cost. Consequently,
it is noticed that poultry producers have acquired a marked degree
of flexibility with respect to their scale of operations, which
hence enables them to adapt quickly to unforeseen market
fluctuations.
Broiler production is far more prevalent than egg production. An
important reason for this is avoiding deeper and more stable
involvement in poultry, so that it is possible for producers to
Scale down their operations in response to emerging crises. Layer
farms offer very little flexibility in this regard, due to the
™ch longer time in which the poultry are tied to the farm.
Day-oig baby chicks are procured entirely from Israeli hatcheries
wi
hich breed hybrid strains of good quality. Until the summer of
1
981 the West Bank had no local hatcheries, and earlier efforts
t
° establish some failed. Feed, on the other hand, is available

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