Colonial Capitalism and Rural Class Formation (ص 235)

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Colonial Capitalism and Rural Class Formation (ص 235)

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of exchange value acquized from each product.
In 1941-42 for example, a survey of 8,793 Jewish private farms
showed that despite the fact that they occupied a relatively very
small area, the overwhelming majority of these farms employed
intensive techniques and preduced commercial crops. Table 2
demonstrates how small farms can be utilized for large-scale
production.
Table 2
Type of Farm No. of Farms Average Size per Farm
(in dunam)
1. Plantations 3,857 20
2. Intensive
Monocultural 636 5-10
Farming
3. Intensive
Mixed farming 3,277 15-20
4. Extensive
Farming 1,277 150
Total 8,793 20
Source: Statistical Handbook,1i947, p. 145 in Gozansky, T. Hitpathut
hakapitalism bi-falastina op.cit, p. 146.
Except for category 4, “Extensive Farming" (Table 2) where crops
like wheat and barley were produced largely for the farmers' own
consumption, all other farms surveyed here, estimated at 7,770 farms
or 86 per cent of all farms, were highly industrialized, hiring family
and outside labour and producing commercial crops for the market
(Gozansky,1986:145}).
Under large-scale commercial production, the productivity of the
land is measured by the value of produce per unit (abu-Rjeyli,197090;
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