Tenuva Sales in Palestine before 1948 (Nakba), British Mandate: A Survey of Palestine: Volume I - Page 382. Chapter IX: Agriculture: Section 7: Jewish Agricultural Settlements: Table 10

CHAPTER IX.
Table 10.
19130 1935 I 1939 I 1941 1943 1944
Milk (in 1000's 3,012, 12,1751 I 6,335 18,950 22, 756122,305
of litres)
Eggs (number 22,007 18,023 22,448
in 100's) 1,6061 5,992 20,022 4 ,3651 8,300
Potatoes, tons 21 420 2,047 4,500
Vegetables, tons 1,290 1,743 8,100 12,300 10,384 10,400
Bananas, tons 753 315 1,618 2,732 2,245 2,864
Grapes, tons 632 734 2,180 2,199 2,410 2,964
Deciduous 25 20 433 833 2,029 2,544
fruits, tons
Fish, tons - 3 145 292 1,150
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Total value of £P. £P. £P. £P. £P. £P.
sales 129,485 402,003 !\79,848 1,022,192 2,990,423 3,956,172

OCCUPATIONAL DISTRIBUTION OF THE SETTLERS.

185. The occupations of the Jewish rural population are summarised below, as derived from a census by the Jewish Agency in 1941/42 :-

Total rural Jewish population in 1941/42 Of this number, wage-earners were

134,276 63,454

The 63 ,454 wage-earners were classified as under :

Number %
Agriculture 27,114 42.7
Industry and handicrafts 9,995 15.7
Building and works S.163 5.0
Transport 2,037 3.2
Liberal professions 3,351 *5_3
Commerce 3.619 5.3
Clerical, constabulary, etc. 6,421 10.1
Service i,894 3.0
Finance and investment 1,058 1.7
Miscellaneous 4,802 8.0
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Total 63,454 100.0 186. This census, however, covered seventeen small towns or large villages which naturally included a much larger percentage of persons engaged in non-agricultural work. It would therefore be convenient to sub-divide the results as under :

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