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CHAPTER XIX.
Table 3.
RICE (HUSKED).
(in metric tons).
I
1930 1931 1937 1938 I 19!5
Net imports (less ex- 113.1011 13,68317,802
ports and re-exports) 9 270 9,788
Average available for I I
consumption per I Kgs. I
head per annum Kga. Kgs. I Kgs. I Kgs.
of the whole population. 8.9 9.5 i 9.8 9.5 4.5
PULSES
5. In the years immediately before the war Palestine imported a material portion of its requirements of pulses. Local production maintained its pre-war level and rose above it in the years 1944 and 1945 when exceptionally heavy crops gave a total yield of some 14,500 tons. Because of the shortage of rice the local consumption of pulses has considerably increased and import requirements amount to approximately 8,000 tons a year compared with an average pre-war import of some 3,000 tons. Table 4 below gives the figures of import and local production. Pulses used purely for animal fodder have been excluded.

Table 4. PULSES.

(in metric tons).

1930

1931

1937

1938

1945

I

-5,240 -4,388' 3,025. 2,390. 1,805

8,472 I 8,4921 7,396 ! 6,7561 14,377

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3,232 4,104 ! 10,421 I 9,1461 16, 182

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I

Net imports* (imports less exports and reexports)

Local production

Total available for consumption

Average available for consumption per head per annum of the settled population

8.3

4.2

7.8

!(gs. 6.7

Kgs. 9.5

I\gs.

!{gs.

Kgs.

SUGAR.

6. Palestine's sugar requirements are met entirely by imports, at present under a quota fixed by the supply authorities. The

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