Dates where once only desert

Moshav Naama is one of 21 communities in the Jordan Valley that produces Medjoul dates. 35 years ago, the whole area was desert. Then Jewish farmers used drip irrigation and purified wastewater to turn the valley into an oasis of date orchards, reviving a crop that thrived there in biblical times.

https://www.israel21c.org/growing-dates-herbs-and-coexistence-in-the-jordan-valley/

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