Agricultural Development in the West Bank (ص 137)
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- Agricultural Development in the West Bank (ص 137)
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CHAPTER VIII
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CHAPTER VIII
EQONOMICS OF RAINFED CROPS AND VEGETABLES
A ~ Field Crops
Field crops do not occupy a prominent place in West Bank agriculture.
This is attributed largely to the scarcity of land fit for low-cost
mechanized farming. The area under field crops has further
declined, as we discussed earlier, because of the closure and
confiscation of large stretches of crop land during the past 14
years. Counting on the average for the last three years, field
Creps occupied about one third of all cultivated land and
Contributed around 6 percent of gross agricultural income (see
Table yI-5) in Chapter VI),
Field crops are grown in all parts of the West Bank, except in
the Jordan Valley where they cannot be rainfed due to insufficient
Tainfall and it does not pay to grow them under irrigation. Table
(VIII-1) shows that one third of all field crops are grown in
Hebron district and one fourth in Jenin, Both of these districts
have relatively large stretches of fairly level land which are fit
for mechanized farming. Likewise, in other districts field grains
re grown in hilly slopes or valley bottoms where the slope is
“Ufficiently gentle. The general trend among farmers is to
Prefer Qrowing grains to fruit trees if the quality of land
Permits intensive field crop production. The data collected
on Profitability tends to give credibility to their choice. - تاريخ
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- المنشئ
- Hisham Masoud Awartani
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