The Ministry of Agriculture has just completed a plan for large-scale agricultural development of the country during the next four years. It is estimated that the four-year plan will cost about $280,000,000, 40 percent of which is required in foreign currency.
The plan calls for the establishment of 480 new settlements comprising 4,800 farming units. This is based on the assumption that Israel’s population will be close to 2,000,000 by 1954.
The Ministry expects that there will be 5,000,000 dunams (1,250,000 acres) of land under cultivation at the end of four years. By that time Israel should be growing all the garden vegetables it needs, half its potatoes and tobacco, one-third of its fish and one-quarter of its bread grain.
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