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Pusa Basmati 1882: कम पानी में भी बंपर पैदावार देगी बासमती की यह किस्म, सूखे की मार झेल रहे किसानों के लिए बनी उम्मीद। यह जानकारी उपलब्ध स्रोत रिपोर्ट के आधार पर सामने आई है। उपलब्ध जानकारी को व्यवस्थित कर यह रिपोर्ट पाठकों के लिए सरल और स्पष्ट भाषा में तैयार की गई है। क्या बदला फिलहाल यह जानकारी उपलब्ध स्रोत के आधार पर दी जा रही है। आधिकारिक पुष्टि या अतिरिक्त विवरण आने पर खबर को अपडेट किया…

You know his name. You may not know what he did.

Baron Edmond de Rothschild.

He never made Aliyah.

He never lived in the land he was investing in.

But from 1882 until his death in 1934, he did what no government and no institution had done.

He funded the ground.

Rishon LeZion. Zichron Yaakov. Rosh Pinna.

Settlement after settlement was collapsing. Disease, drought, Ottoman pressure.

He sent money. When money wasn't enough, he sent agronomists from France.

Over $50 million of his own money. In today's terms, billions.

Nearly 500,000 dunams of land purchased and reclaimed.

Almost 30 settlements saved.

Understand what the world looked like in 1882.

There was no State of Israel.

No Balfour Declaration.

No Jewish army.

No Tel Aviv.

Jerusalem was a poor city inside the Ottoman Empire.

The idea that Jews would establish a sovereign state in this land was considered a fantasy.

He had no way of knowing a state would come 66 years later.

He just believed the land was worth investing in before the world agreed.

Without him, most of those early settlements would not have survived.

Without those settlements, there may have been no state.

Most people wait for the right conditions. Rothschild built them.

So every diaspora Jew who invests in Israel today is continuing what he started.

One belief.  The land is ours.