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CHAPTER VIII.

3. Yields and gross annual income at pre-war prices from crops.

PLANTATION CROPS.

Crop

Area in dunums

*Total yield in kgs.

Value in mils per kg

Gross value £P. Mils

Olives 5 1,430 fruit 40 14.400
= 360 oil
Mixed fruits 5 - - 12.000
Total 10 - - 26.400 ANNUAL CROPS.

Crop

I Total

Area in yield

I dunums in kgs

I Value in I Gross value mils £P. Mils per kg.

Winter cereals.
Wheat so 3,000 8 24.000
Barley 10 1,200 4 4.800
Legumes, hay and vegeables.
Berseem (fahli) bay 5 1,500 4 6.000
Lentils 5 300 9 2.700
Beans 5 875 9 3.375
Kersenneh 5 300 5 1,500
Vetch and oats hay 15 5,250 st 18.375
Potatoes 5 5,000 5 25.000
Summer crop.
Millet (dum) 20 3,000 4 12.000
Sesame 10 400 20 8.000
Water melons 5 7,500 H 11.250
Cucumbers 5 4,000 4 16.000
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120 - - 133.000
Tibben from cereals, lentils
and kersenneh - 4,500 1 4.500 Total gross value

LP. 137.500 mils

4. Costs of production.

PLANTATION CROPS.

The following are the estimated costs of production of the plantation crops exclusive of labour. The expenditure is mainly for the cost of fertilizers, insecticides and depreciation of tools and implements. The cost of ploughing does not include wages :-

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