Agricultural Development in the West Bank (ص 62)
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- Agricultural Development in the West Bank (ص 62)
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Adding to these figires the area of land with unclear ttle (1.5
mA} 11on domime), which Terael decided recently to clawelfy state.
owned, and the area owned by absentee owners (430,000 donums), this
Pts under Israeli control around 65 percent of all West flank
1
land area.
Tnrael's assault on land resources in the occupied territories has
had a deep and multi-faceted impact on West Bank agriculture. The
major consequences of these policies are outlined below:
1. Putting Large areas of land out of production through
confiscation and security closures. Up to 1979 some 14 percent
of all agricultural Land was lost through such measures.” The
sttuation has been particularly grave in the Jordan Valley and
adjacent hills in the north, where 40 percent of arable land
4 farmed by 2000 Israeli settlers and 22,000 Palestinians are
Alloted the remaining 60 percent.?
Israel's arbitrary and sweeping land harrassments have left
mounting fears among farmers regarding the security of their
holdings. Most farmers have developed a stronger reticence
towards all projects which demand large capital outlays in the
form of long-term fixed a
ts. A prominent example of such
Projects is the reclamation of hilly land and maintenance of
stone walls. This trend has been further reinforced, as we
shall see later, by a sharply rising opportunity cost of
Jabour and capital and gradual shift in the price structure
against farm produce.
Seven
1 Ibta,
% Economic: Resources of the West bank and their
Israeli Econoay, 09 elt, p 11. lncacl.on_the
Pavid Lennon, op cit.
Water
“Mter FeNCUrCee and polltles occupy a particularly significant
position on the agenda of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
"bth wldew realize the far-reaching consequences of measures taken
in regard to the utilization and @ntzol of available water
reserves. This subject, evidently, is so important and complex
that 41 needs continuous monitoring through specialized studies
Sealing with its technical, economic, and political attributes. This
section, however, deals only with the politics of water use and
explores Inrael's water policts
in the occupied territories.
Yore will be written on water resources and their use in a lat
section,
timates of consumption
Total water consumption in the West Bank is estimated at about
100 million cubic meters (mc) per year, of which 90 percent is
Used in agriculture.) Averaged on a per capita basis, overall
than one third of the
water consumption in the West Bank is 1
level in Israel (see Table I1I-5). Disparity in domestic
consumption is even more dramatic.
1. Hisham Awartani, Mater Resources and Politics, op cit, p 18. - تاريخ
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- Hisham Masoud Awartani
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