Palestine’s citrus crop this year will total about 15,000,000 cases, of which 10,000,000 will go to Britain and 2,000,000 to other European countries, it was reported here today by Itzhak Rokach, manager of the Pardess Syndicate Cooperative Society.
Rokach told a press conference that the syndicate has 200,000 dunams (50,000 acres) under cultivation, half of which belong to Jews and half to Arabs. Before the war, he pointed out, Jews owned 60 percent of the acreage.
The industry’s largest single customer is the British Ministry of Food. Its purchases are enough to supply every Briton with one orange every three days, the manager said. He expressed the hope that the industry will have completely recovered from the effects of the war within the next two or three years and effect large-scale machanization in order to bring down costs.
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