Strawberry Cultivation and its Impact on the Palestinian Agriculture

This book is aimed to describe the strawberry cultivation and its impact on the Palestinian agricultural sector. It is also aimed to describe the strawberry cultivation system at micro and macro scales, and to investigate its impact on the livelihood of Palestinian farming families in addition to that of water resources availability at macro scale. Moreover, the aim of this study is to facilitate planners with clear view in order to design national cropping strategies that consider both macro and micro scales. The study involved analysis at macro and micro scales using many of socioeconomic research methodologies (descriptive and quantitative analysis). A structured questionnaire was used to reflect farming family production system and livelihood, which have been collected randomly from 289 out of the 600 representing 48.1% of total population of strawberry farmers located and active in Bait Lahia during the season 2012-2013.