A fixed tax rate of 33.3% was paid on agricultural products, including wheat, barley, olives, grape syrup/molasses, goats and/or beehives; a total of 2,280 akçe.
[14][15] In 1883, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine described Wad Fukin as "A small stone village on the side of a hill, with a good spring in the valley below on the south-west.
[17] In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Wadi Fukin had a population of 149, all Muslims.
[23] Prior to the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, Wadi Fukin was raided by the Haganah a number of times and several inhabitants fled to the Dheisheh camp established just south of Bethlehem.
On 15 July 1949 the Israeli Army expelled the population of Wadi Fukin after the village had been transferred to the Israeli-occupied area under the terms of the Armistice Agreement concluded between Israel and Jordan.
After some hesitation, an adjustment in the Green Line was accepted and finally an agreement was reached whereby the Armistice line was changed to give back Wadi Fukin to the Jordanian authority who, in turn, agreed to transfer some uninhabited, but fertile territory south of Bethlehem to the Israeli authority in November 1949.
The Mennonite Centre in East Jerusalem and the Agricultural Relief Committee helped introduce drip irrigation systems and other farming improvements.
[25] After the 1995 accords, most of the village's land, roughly 667 acres, was classified as Area C under complete Israeli control and military administration.
[5] As a result of the Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip in 1995, 93.6% of Wadi Fukin's land is located in Area C (complete Israeli control), while 6.4% is located in Area B, which is under the administration of the Palestinian National Authority and Israeli security.
The village is watered by 11 springs used to irrigate hundreds of small farm plots using a system of canals and dams.
[28][citation needed] Another project in October 2007 involved direct marketing of the produce to households in Jerusalem.