Agricultural Development in the West Bank (ص 152)

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Agricultural Development in the West Bank (ص 152)

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The livestock sector includes poultry (broiler and egg production),
ves’
Sheep, goats, cows, pigs, honey bees» and fish production. Pigs
11 scale, while no fish
and honey bees are raised on a very sm
at all is produced on the West Bank. Table (IX-2), presents a
Sectoral breakdown of income from livestock as it was during the
four years 1976-79. Agriculture plays a more significant stabilizing role for those
farmers engaged in irrigated patterns of farming.
Table (1x - 2)
2,
Livestock income, 1976-80 On a three years average, sheep account for more ea
1976 1977 1978 1979 Average
third of all livestock income (37 percent), followed by cows
. 4.7 3175.
Gross agr. income (IL mill) 1535-1 1,734.0 3-756-6 5467 5-2 (32 percent) goats (22 percent) and poultry (17 percent).
Livestock & poultry:
3 F
* However, comparing various 1i
~ Total income (IL mill) 469.1 572.4 914.4 2,104.0 1015.2 2 ng livestock subsectors on the basis
of variations in annual i iti ;
~% of agr. income 30.6 33.0 24.3 37.1 32.0 income, it is noted that income from
Sheep fluctuates most, followed respectively by goats, cows
Sectoral distribution: an
Poultry. This refl i
Poultry 72.2 80.7 127.7 389.6 167.6 ry Ss reflects the excessive dependence of sheep
4nd goats on natural tur i i :
Cows 111.4 «149.9 -242.4 = 420.2 321.0 pastures, the quality of which varies
considerably from year to year, ing on the amount of
Sheep 173-7 209.3 «336.0 © 804.9 381.0 » depending °:
Yainfall.
Goats 103.9 122.6 192.4 463.5 220.6
Others 8.7 9.9 15.9 25.8 15.1 We
hall explore further in this section the economic setting of
Source: Administered Territories Statistics Quarterly 1980,
individual livestock sub-sectors along the same lines as we did
op cit, p 89 f
‘°F other types of agriculture.
The data in Table (IX-2) reveals some important features of the
and ts
SSP and _goats
West Bank's Livestock sector, notably the following:
Sheep and goats are kept usually by the same farmers and mostly
lL.
The share of livestock in gross agricultural income varies in the same flocks and for the same purposes. Therefore they will
widely from year to year, partly because of severe variations be treated together in this section.
in gross income, induced mainly by fluctuations in rainfed Produces
“Sittion and income
farming. Furthermore, the said ratio is also influenced by
©P and goats are the most important livestock animals on the ;
marked variations in the output of individual livestock
West Bank, Table (1x-3) shows their geographic distribution in 1980.
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