Iraq’s date palms: Rescuing a national icon

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KARBALA, July 17 — Thousands of young date palms, Iraq’s national symbol, form lines that extend from the edge of the desert near the central city of Karbala and into the...

KARBALA, July 17 — Thousands of young date palms, Iraq’s national symbol, form lines that extend from the edge of the desert near the central city of Karbala and into the horizon.

Once known as the “country of 30 million palm trees”, and home to 600 varieties of the fruit, Iraq’s date production has been blighted by decades of conflict and environmental challenges, including drought, desertification and salinisation. Now “the salinisation of the waters of the Shatt al-Arab and of the land” poses an even greater challenge, Badran says.

 

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