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To: Diana in Wisconsin

You know,... I don’t really know.


4 posted on 04/22/2008 5:38:23 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
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To: SandRat

I was being lazy, LOL! Looks like they can grow all sorts of stuff because they have irrigation. Mainly cereal crops and animal feed, but the usual suspects such as:

“Tomato, cucumber, watermelon, onion, okra, eggplant, sweet melon, broad green bean, green bean, sweet pepper, squash, lettuce, spinach, Swiss chard, carrot, cabbage and cauliflower are the main vegetables and date palm, citrus, grape, pomegranate, stone fruits (apricot, plum, peach, almond), pear, olive, apples and fig are the main fruit crops grown in Iraq. Iraq is considered to be the largest producer of date palm fruit in the world.”

BUT, only 9% of their land is used for producing food. Good thing they have oil to “trade.” ;)

http://www.fao.org/docrep/006/Y9870E/y9870e07.htm


6 posted on 04/22/2008 5:46:53 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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