Important economic achievements and the extension of activitiy in most centers were recorded in 1933-34 by the Jewish settlements, according to a report made public by the Agricultural. Colonization department of the Jewish Agency. The achievement, the report points out, is all the greater because the bulk of the settlements had not received the full budget planned for them by the Jewish Agency. It refutes, the report states, the predictions of experts who predicted the settlements would show signs of failure as soon as Keren Hayesod appropriations were with-held from them.
The explanation set forth for the healthy condition of the settlements were the good use made by the rural centers of prosperous conditions in the country, the strengthening of their co-operative buying and selling organizations (“Thenuva” and “Hamashbir”), the extension of cattle raising, poultry breeding and grain farming activities and the higher degree of productivity in many fields.
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