Palestinian French fries Rosetta factory Gaza Beit Hanoun The first French fries plant in the Gaza
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delma Gaza 1st French fries factory creates jobs, helps farmers French-fry factory offers rare jobs for Gaza women
The Agricultural Association of Beit Hanoun came up with the idea of establishing a fried-potato factory offering the extra advantage of providing stable employment for women in Gaza.
Palestinian women pack French fries at Rosetta factory in the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Hanoun, on Jan. 30, 2019. The first French fries plant in the Gaza Strip, established under the initiative of the Agricultural Cooperative Society (ACS), provided rare employment opportunities for women, especially young graduates, and helped the farmers with the surplus of potato harvest.
The first French fries plant in the Gaza Strip provided rare employment opportunities for women, especially young graduates, and helped the farmers with the surplus of potato harvest.
Rosetta factory was established under the initiative of the Agricultural Cooperative Society (ACS) in the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Hanoun.
According to the ACS, the initiative aims at empowering women economically through special employment opportunities, especially for female graduates in Gaza.
According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, 61 percent of young graduates in the Gaza Strip are unemployed, and 37 percent of male graduates don't have a job, while 72 percent of female graduates are jobless.
The World Bank said in a recent report that unemployment among Palestinians in the Gaza Strip hit 70 percent.
the factory initially provides 10 job opportunities for women and young graduates, but they plan to expand the work crew once production is increased.
The factory, which produces around one ton of French fries every day, also hires around 10 men who work on night shifts when more shipments are demanded.
The number of working days in the factory ranges from 15 to 20 working days per month, depending on shipment demand as well as the daily electricity schedule that Gaza has been adopting to deal with the power crisis which has been ongoing for more than 13 years.
The problem of power outages seriously affects the work of the factory. When there is a power cut, generators are used, the factory needs electricity to store the potatoes in special refrigerators during the whole day.After testing 16 types of imported potatoes, three were adopted to be planted in the town of Beit Hanoun.
Since the Israeli blockade was imposed in 2007, Gaza manufacturers and farmers – along with the families who rely upon them for income – have suffered, both due to the resulting lack of supplies and prohibited access to markets. A case in point is the 5,000 or so families who try to eke out a living by growing potatoes.
While farmers are able to produce about 50,000 tons of potatoes annually, exports have dropped close to zero, due to Israel's repeated closure or restricted opening of the commercial crossings, as well as competition from the more politically connected Egyptian farmers.
The Rosetta Factory is the first of its kind in Gaza and offers the extra advantage of providing stable employment for women. 52% of Gazans are unemployed, the highest rate in the world. Among women, however, it's a lot worse.Fifty-two percent of Gazans are unemployed, the highest rate in the world. Among women, however, it's a lot worse; the rate was 74.5 percent last year, an increase of more than five percent since the last quarter of 2017. In Gaza's conservative society, men typically work outside the home and women take care of children and other domestic duties.
However, changes in social norms and the deep poverty (now afflicting more than 80 percent of the population) have caused more women to seek work outside the home. The Rosetta Factory is the first of its kind in Gaza and offers the extra advantage of providing stable employment for women.
Each day, the women who work at Rosetta Factory produce 80 kilos of chips, which then are distributed to more than 20 local restaurants. Soon, more women will be able to join them.
A local Gaza-based committee resisting the 12-year Israeli blockade warned in January that Israel's embargo has led to a severe humanitarian deterioration in all aspects of life in the Gaza Strip.
The committee said that 90 percent of factories in the impoverished densely populated territory have been badly damaged due to the Israeli blockade and the growing rates of unemployment, adding that 85 percent of the populations are living under the poverty line.
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