(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
The total area of Jewish holdings in Palestine amounts to over one million dunams, according to the results of the census taken in April of last year and just published by the Jerusalem Zionist Executive. The land is divided as follows: Palestine Jewish Colonization Association (Pica) 429,000 dunams. Jewish National Fund 214,000 dunams. American Zion Commonwealth 151,000 dunams, communal property, concessions, individual property, etc. 208,000 dunams, making a total of 1,002,000 dunams.
The total area farmed amounts to 463,570 dunams of which 79,214 dunams are under plantation and 251,106 are crop-land. In 1900 the area operated was 119,000 dunams. There were 2,007 farms with 11,521 heads of dairy cattle. The number of working animals, with regard to crop-land, was 4.567 head.
The aggregate population living in the agricultural and semi-agricultural places was 30,500 as compared with 15,172 registered by the Government in October. 1922. About 90 per cent of the population were Ashkenazim, and the rest Sephardim and other groups from Oriental countries. There were 5,002 individuals living alone and 5,904 families containing 25,498 members. The pre-war population accounts for 9,473 persons, and the rest are post-war immigrants.
Of the 30,500 persons enumerated, 13,751 were living on their farms, 8,441 were living on their plots, and 8,308 were landless.
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