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Dr. E. Soskin, Noted Jewish Agronomist, Arrives Here from Palestine

June 5, 1944
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Dr. S. E. Soskin, noted Jewish agronomist and Zionist leader, has arrived here from Palestine. He expects to interest the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration in a proposal to feed liberated Europe by hydroponics, which is soil-less agriculture.

On the basis of his experiments with the soil-less method, Dr. Soskin believes that the immediate introduction of large-scale hydroponic cultivation in Palestine would provide food-stuffs for Europe. Five hundred tons of chemicals shipped from the United States could produce 10,000 tons of potatoes in Palestine, which is particularly well adapted to the chemical method of agriculture since it has on an average of 320 days of sunshine yearly, Dr. Soskin said.

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