Tuesday, September 29, 2009

A date in Iraq

"Since 2007, Iraq has had a lot less than half its normal rainfall. This has had another effect on the date harvest - rain cleans the trees, and washes away pests that degrade the crop. Now the insects thrive, and the trees suffer." (Thanks Laila)

1 comment:

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HI,
thanks for the blog. It was interesting to get know more about Iraqi draughts. there is always info about war that man forget it is just country with normal people with normal problems like everywhere else. julia