Colonial Capitalism and Rural Class Formation (ص 234)
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- Colonial Capitalism and Rural Class Formation (ص 234)
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most cultivable land until the 1930s was under cereal production.
Although this does not imply that other commercial crops were
absent,it nevertheless indicates that small-scale pre-capitalist forms
of production were characteristic of the fallah economy.
The emergence and development of la-¢2-scale production, namely
vegetables and fruits during the 1930s and 1940s, began to gradualiy
take the place of cereal production. One indication of this process is
shown in terms of the decline in the size of land under cereal and
the growth of that under commercial crops (Table 1).
Table 1: Area Under Cereal, Vegetables and Fruits (other than citrus)
for the Period 1935-44, (in Dunams).
Year Cereal Vegetables Fruits
1935 6,535,031 118,542 879,813
1936 6,365,636 145,871 1,04€,111
1937 6,300,310 151,520 1,062,753
1938 5,766,009 133,333 1,059,003
1939 5,366,900 138,621 1,071,992
1940 5,736,932 206,266 = maemenena
1943 4,568,294 257,871 1,095,766
1944 4,235,053 294,496 1,094,820
Source: Statistical Abstract of Palestine, 1935-1944; 1945 in
Ameri,tatawwor al-zira‘ta wa-alsina'ta fi-falastin [The development of
agriculture and industry in Palestine, 1900-1970] (Beirut, 1974: 34)
While the area under cereal cultivation was constantly in decline
(Table 1); from 6,535,031d. in 1935 to 4,235,053 in 1944, that is, a
decline of about 35 percent, both areas under vegetable and fruit
cultivation were simultaneously expanding. Between 1935 and 1944 the
area under vegetable cultivation increased by 175,954.d.,or about 148
percent,and that under fruits increased by 215,005d. or 124 per cent.
Yet, the most significant feature in the process of transforming
small-scale agriculture into large-scale production is in the amount
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