The unseasonable heat and lack of rain which has prevailed in Israel in recent weeks has already destroyed half of the winter crop and threatens the remainder, an expert of the Ministry of Agriculture revealed today following a tour of the drought areas. Farmers have been hit most desperately in the Scuthern Negev, the Jezreel Valley and the Upper Ephraim Plateau.
Unless four inches of rain falls soon, farmers say, the remainder of the winter crop will be lost and the summer crop will be in danger. It is not even possible to sow the next crop now because of the extreme dryness of the soil.
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