A report on “The Progress of Agriculture in Israel, ” issued by the Economic Division of the Canadian Department of Agriculture, predicts that despite the generally satisfactory progress in agriculutral development made during the short existence of the State of Israel, a change in agricultural policy must be made if the country is ever to reach the stage where it can be largely self-supporting in food supplies.
The report declares that despite the spending of over $300,000,000 on agricultural expansion and mechanization, the doubling of land under cultivation, as well as the continuance of food rationing, Israel, approaching the sixth year of statehood, still has to import over 50 percent in value of the food requirements of her population.
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