[1] Agriculture and Development was an Israeli Arab organisation formed to fight the 1951 elections.
It drew its support from Arabs living in the central area of Israel.
[2] In the elections, the party won only one seat, taken by its leader, Faras Hamdan.
In the 1955 elections the party won one seat, retained by Hamdan, and was again part of the coalition.
In the 1959 elections the party again won one seat, and joined the coalition, with Mahmud Al-Nashaf replacing Hamdan as leader.