Colonial Capitalism and Rural Class Formation (ص 89)

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Colonial Capitalism and Rural Class Formation (ص 89)

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Table 11: Sesame Exported from Acre, Haifa and Jaffa by Okes
Year Acre Haifa Jaffa
1872 2,000,000 1,500,000 2,893,449
1873 500,00G 500,000 3,000,000
1874 2,000,00C 1,000,000 2,000,000
1875 3,000,000 2,000,000 2,800,000
1876 400,000 500,000 2,350,000
1877 300,000 200,000 1,870,000
1880 800,000 1,500,000 1,700,000
Source: Compiled from Tables: 1.3,1.5,1.6 and 1.9 in Scholch,
"European Penetration..." in Owen (ed)
(1981:pp.58-62)
Oranges produced for export were by far the most
Palestinian crop in the late 19th century.
the year 1873
33,000,000 oranges was consumed locally,
Studies in the Economic...
important
A British trade report for
estimated that only 1/6th of the crop amounting to
while the rest was exported
to Egypt and Turkey (Owen,1981l:pp. 177-178). By then Jaffa, the centre
of citrus production,
in Jaffa had risen tc 500 by the early 1880s,
of about 4,000 dunams (a dunam is equivalent to 1/4th of an
Citrus plantations continued to expand markedly thereafter,
an area of about 30,000 dunams by the early 20th century
1981:178). The fertility of the
Coastal Plain and its
had around 420 orchards. The number of orchards
stretching over an area
acre).
covering
(Owen,
early
involvement in the production of cash crops drew many new residents,
both investors and workers, to the Plain. In the late 19th
over 25 per cent of the total Palestinian population lived
(Owen 1981:178).
region Table 3 below shows the annual
four major coastal cities, generated from exported goods,
oranges.
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century
in this
income, in
including

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