Report to the ... Zionist Congress and to the Council of the Jewish Agency in ... · 1935-08-01 · 8.1935 · p. Seite 312

secured income, and the tendency is now growing to engage in mixed farming, particularly so in view of the prices of crops remaining stable in the internal market and, furthermore, as the agricultural products are not adequate to provide the local needs, and the import of agricultural produce is growing as enumerated below : 1 ■ . Import of Agricultural Produce in 1933-34 In 1933. In 1934. U nit. Quantity. £P. Quantity. £P. Milk and Milk Products Kg. 1,582,870 119,938 3,852,975 237,916 Fowls ...... Head 280,236 17,179 678,820 41,437 Eggs ...... Units 34,315,479 63,245 56,982,136 105,363 Raw Fruit and Fruit Products Ton 8,938 123,203 11,528 236,122 Vegetables and Products Ton 2,069 17,170 5,369 28,423 Potatoes Ton 9,753 45,257 12,349 73,150 Flour ...... Ton 28,430 277,513 26,962 247,245 Corn and Peas Ton 228,409 1,488,702 163,928 1,081,774 Cattle ...... Head 123,080 164,409 262,000 335,000 Conserved Meat Ton 605 27,916 850 36,687 Wines and Spirits — 24,476 — 29,500 Oil ...... — 72,333 — 84,500 Honey Kg. 2,615 113 22,241 756 Total 2,441,454 2,537,873 4. During the period under review, about 100,000 dunams of land passed into Jewish hands at the cost of about £P. 2,000,000, besides the area in the Huleh Concession. 5. Speculation brought in its wake demoralisation and anarchy in the life of the country. Formerly the ills of speculation were mainly felt in the urban districts, but since the last year or two they have been increasingand spreading to the villages, and especially to the rural areas contiguous to the towns. Schemes of various " Tels " of urban and semi-urban settlements are springing up like mushrooms in the spring. Excellent orange groves have been cleared of their fruit-bearing trees to make room for buildingsites. Naturally the inflated land prices in urban neighbourhoods affected the prices of land throughout the country. The main sufferers from the inflated land prices are the new immigrants with means, who wish to settle in the proximity of towns and in the plantation zones. A considerable part of these settle in the existing colonies on ready estates purchased from the farmers or on reserve lands, which were hitherto either uncultivated or only extensively cultivated. 6. Marked progress has been made in agricultural education in the country. The agricultural school in Pardess-Chana, established by the Farmers' Federation, gives instruction to forty 312