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Hebrew U. Creating a Desert Farm
as A Model for World's Arid Areas
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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, July 9, 1971-15
While in previous years the
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Hebrew University are creating a project has been supported by
large desert farm in the Negev, American and British sources, both
for $ 3.95
which may serve as a model to governmental and private, it is now
being
funded
mainly
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various
the world that bountiful crops can
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be grown in arid areas without philanthropic organizations in West-
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irrigation.
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Negev, based upon an ancient tion, HEKS.
agricultural principle, is now being
adapted as large-scale farming on
a 300-times bigger area, at the
nearby Wadi Mashash, south of
Beersheba. The Bedouin tribes of
this 3,750 acre region are taking
great interest in this new venture
as a new means of obtaining a
livelihood and raising their stand-
ard of living.
The pioneer and moving spirit
of the project is Prof. Michael
Evenari, Hebrew University pro-
fessor of botany, who together
with his research team, has proved
the theory that agriculture is pos-
sible in waterless regions by using
the runoff farming system prac-
ticed by the ancient Israelites,
Nabateans and Byzantines in the
Negev more than 3,000 years ago.
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dle East, North Africa, Pakistan,
India, Russia, Mexico, Australia
and even the United States.
Says Prof. Evenari: "There are
several Arab countries in the Mid-
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our methods, but I as a Jew and
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an Israeli cannot go and teach
the technique there—but I hope
that trainees from developed coun-
tries may come here and learn
our desert farming and then apply
it also in Arab countries."
At present, there are four young
trainees from Germany, and later
others will come from Switzerland
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and the United States. The Negev
is increasingly becoming a testing,
ground for modern means of re-
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claiming deserts, and the Negev
runoff system may one day turn
vast arid and semi-arid areas into
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load passengers' baggage. In some
cases the passengers stormed the
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