Jewish National Fund development projects in the 1982-3 budgetary year will total 3.2 billion Shekels, the JNF announced. Of this amount, just over two billion will come from the JNF’s own budget, and just over one billion from other sources.
The JNF’s budget for the 1982-3 year is 173 percent higher than for the previous year, much in excess of the inflation rise. The JNF’s land development department alone will account for 1.214 billion Shekels of the total sum. Its plans include:
Infrastructure work for 12 new settlement areas and expansion of existing settlement infrastructure; infrastructure work for Nahal outposts; reclamation of more than 30,000 dunams of land for agricultural use, building 22 kilometers of new roadways; infrastructure work for new industrial zones; drainage and flood-control projects; establishment of new mitzpim (outposts) in Galilee, and the expansion of existing ones.
The JNF’s forestry department has plans for the year that will cost another 490 million shekels. They include planting a further 18,000 dunams of forest; development of recreational parks and picnic sites; laying new rural roadways; growing some five million sapling for future plantings; pruning and conservation work in existing forests; and development of some 77,000 dunams of pasture land.
The JNF hopes to host 20,000 youngsters at its country holiday camps where they work voluntarily in forestry projects.
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