in villagers of al-nahr lived principally of agriculture and animal husbandry. in the 1945 statistics it had a population of 610 muslims, with 5,261 dunams of land. a total of 2,066 dunums was used for citrus and bananas, 1,094 dunums were allotted to cereals, 1,937 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards, of which 30 dunums were planted in olive trees, while 28 dunams were built-up land.