Agricultural Development in the West Bank (ص 43)
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Map No ( 6
West Bank districts, 1967
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Population, while Nablus had the largest area and Tulkarm was of
the highest population density,
Table (II - 15)
Population, area, and population by district
(September 1967)
District Population Area _(km2) Density (per km)
Number Percentage
Total 805.6 100.0 5,572.0 144.6
Jenin 107.7 13.4 571.7 168.3
Tulkarm 121.0 15.0 332.0 363.4
Nablus 128.0 15.8 1,587.4 80.6
Ramallah 114.0 14.2 770.3 148.0
Jericho 11.3 1.4 338.1 33.4
Jerusalem 106.0 13.2 351.1 301.9
Bethlehem 77.0 9.5 565.2 136.2
Hebron 140.6 17.5 1,056.2 133.1
Source: IDF Census, op cit, p IX.
Qonsidering the scarcity of cultivable land (around 200,000
hectares) and irrigation water (less than 90 million cubic meters
Per year) the population density in the West Bank is quite high.
This adds an important constraint to the potential role of
Agriculture in economic development and dictates policies which
Are-sensitive to peculiar socio-political needs, sometimes, as
we shall see later, at the expense of purely economic criteria.
Types of settlement
In terms of size of settlement, the West Bank population is
Predominantly rural, since 70 percent of it inhabit villages of
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