The Dispossession of the Peasantry (ص 218)

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The Dispossession of the Peasantry (ص 218)

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Besides the role of rainfall, the area cultivated with sesame was probably
affected by the government’s tariff policy. As in the case of olive oil, the
importation of sesame seeds was exempt from duty. In 1930, Simpson repeated the
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complaint by the Johnson-Crosbie Report’’ issued six months earlier on that
policy. Simpson said:
Everywhere a demand was made that the import duty on sesame,
which had been removed in 1925 in order to help the Jewish oil
factory “Shemen” should be reimposed, and the Palestine
government has agreed to the reimposition. The sesame position is
curious. In 1929, while 3,539 tons were exported at an average price
of £P 20.436 mils per ton, 3,470 tons were imported at a price of
£P 23.278 mils per ton. The imported sesame comes chiefly from
China and is generally said to be an inferior seed to the Palestinian
seed.”
Similarly, E. R. Sawyer, the director of the Department of Agriculture,
Forests, and Fisheries argued:
In the absence of any definite information, it can only be presumed
that this free gift to Chinese and Spanish cultivators at the cost of
practically the entire Arab agricultural community and, incidentally,
of tithe and customs revenue, meets a demand from a few recently
established oil mills of dubious financial stability.”
Two years previous to this, Sawyer had pointed out that because of the exemptions
on sesame imports, production had plummeted from 2,594 tons in 1925 to 1,817
tons in 1926.*!
survey I, 311.
®Hope-Simpson Report, 103.
EF. R. Sawyer to chief secretary, dated 1 April 1929, as quoted in Smith, 174.
*"Tbid., Sawyer to chief secretary, 25 January 1927.
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