The Jewish Agricultural Society reported today that it has granted more than $11,000,000 in loans to prospective and established Jewish farmers since its organization in 1900. The group’s 48th annual report, made public here today, said that last year "set a high mark" in the Society’s activities.
"More families were settled during 1947 on farms than in any of the five preceding years," the report disclosed. Among the Jewish farm settlers aided last year, the survey continued, were a proportionately large number of refugee immigrants and World War II veterans.
Of the $850,000 loaned to Jewish refugee farmers in the past decade, the report revealed, more than two-thirds has already been repaid. More than $350,000 was granted in loans in 1947 to Jewish farm families in 11 states, while 106 families were aided in establishing themselves on farms in New York, New Jersey, California, Connecticut Florida, Massachusetts, Michigan and Ohio. There are Jewish farming families in 40 states at present, the survey said.
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