The year 1961 was a good agricultural year for Israel, a United States Department of Agriculture report on foreign crop markets indicates. The report, published today, showed Israeli production of leaf tobacco, olive oil and wheat were up from 1960 production figures.
Israeli farmers produced a total of $5,500,000 pounds of leaf tobacco during 1961 as compared with 3,900,000 pounds for 1960 in reversal of a general trend of lower production in Asia. Production of olive oil in Israel rose in 1961 to 1,000,000 short tons as compared with 600,000 short tons for 1960. Middle Eastern production of olive oil in general rose about 20 percent over 1960, the report showed. But Israel’s olive oil production in 1961 was still well below the 1956 and 1958 production figures.
The report also showed that Israeli wheat production for 1961 was 2,000,000 bushels, as compared with 1,500,000 for 1960, but still short of the 1959 production figure of 2,700,000 bushels. Wheat production throughout the world and in Asia was slightly off in 1961 as compared with the previous year, the report pointed out.
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