The Dispossession of the Peasantry (ص 249)

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The Dispossession of the Peasantry (ص 249)

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throughout the country. Given the small size of the country, it appears that the
number of government representatives mentioned above were more than sufficient
for the task. These representatives, I argue, could have easily propagated the
lease/land program had the government been more serious about a fairer
distribution between the European settlers and Arab cultivators and within the
latter.
Finally, the support provided by the government to the European settler
mechanization of agriculture went much beyond merely the biased distribution of
machinery during WWII. More critically, the relatively mechanized European
settler agriculture was facilitated by the customs policies of the government. One
of the first changes to the Ottoman customs system, and as early as 1920, was
tariff exemptions on “settler’s effects” and on agricultural machinery and seeds.
These exemptions were consolidated in 1924 in the Customs Duties Amendment
Ordinance and the Customs Duties Exemption Ordinance,’ and still maintained in
the 1937 Customs Tariff and Exemption Ordinance.’
Another noticeable area of mechanization in agriculture was in irrigation.
This primarily involved the use of electric pumps. No figures are available on the
use, local manufacture, or imports of electric pumps. However, the substantial
increase in the use of electric pumps, especially during WWII, can be inferred
from the available data on the sale of electric power for irrigation.
*Sawwaf, “Trade,” 432.
Survey I, 444.
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