Page 11 - Ulpan-Or: e-Tone 03-22-16, Advanced level

E-Tone™: Ulpan-Or Weekly News Digest

Item #2 (Advanced Level)

The Rain didn't Come

Though the wheat fields of the Jordan Valley look green from above, [but]
don’t let this spectacular sight mislead you. When the camera comes closer
to the ground, a very bleak picture is revealed. (It’s) the beginning of
March, and the wheat, which was already sown twice this year, didn’t
grow to the desired height. Everything because the rain simply hasn’t
come down yet. The costs of one dunam (about ¼ of an acre) of wheat is
about two hundred and fifty NIS. The planned profit from selling high
quality wheat grains is around five hundred NIS per dunam, and harvest
work is priced at sixty NIS for one dunam. At this current state, when
wheat grains aren’t selling, but (they) have to harvest the stalks, the
financial losses are massive. It’s a similar state at the Jezreel Valley as
well. The scarce floods that hit the area in the beginning of the winter gave
some hope to farmers here, but after three months the wheat hasn’t grown
to the desired height and isn’t of a high enough quality. In any case, a
shortage of different breads won’t be felt this year, and the ones to take
losses in, estimated at tens of millions of NIS, are only the farmers up
north.

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