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CHAPTER IX.

(c) individual : private farmers each of whom works his farm independently, although they may participate in co-operative

societies of various kinds. ~

160. In 1890 the Jewish rural population was 4% of the total Jewish population; this proportion increased to 14% in 1914, to 19%" in 1927, and in 1944, out of a total Jewish population of 565,000 in Palestine, 25%, or 143,000, lived in rural areas. This population of 143 ,000 lived in the following kinds of settlements :

Table 2.
Number of Population
settlements
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Individual 44 76,000
Co-operative 99 29,500
Communal Ill 33,500
Schools and farms 5 5,000
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Total 259 144,000 NATURE AND EXTENT OF JEWISH FARMING.
161. The varieties of crops cultivated by the different classes of
Jewish settlers in 1944 are as under :-
Table 3.
Cooperative
Individual and Total
communal
Dunums Dunums Dunume
Oitrua orchards 108,000 12,000 120,000
Other fruits: vines, olives,
bananas and deciduous 21,800 20.100 41,900
Total 129,800 32,100 161,900
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Wheat f "'•""" 130,000
Barley 95,000
Maize and dura 330,000 87,000
Hay 72,000
Other cereals 91,000
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~ Total 145,000 330,000 475,000
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Irrigated fodder 7,300 29,700 37.000
Irrigated vegetables 12,900 18,100. 32.000
Industrial plants 1,500 3,500 5,000
Fish ponds 1,000 4,850 5,850
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Total 22,700 56,150 79,850
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297,500 418,250 716. 750
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