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GAZA VEGETABLES TO BE SHIPPED TO ISRAEL FOR FIRST TIME IN 8 YEARS

Chamid Riyadi - Thursday, 12 March 2015 - 08:00 WIB

Thursday, 12 March 2015 - 08:00 WIB

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A Palestinian labourer holds up a box of freshly picked strawberries on a farm in Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip (Photo: Ma'an News Agency)
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on a farm in Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip (Photo: Ma’an News Agency)

Gaza, 21 Jumadil Awwal 1436/12 March 2015 (MINA) –  Vegetables harvested in the Gaza Strip will be israel/">exported to Israel for the first time in eight years on Thursday.

A Gaza merchant, Salim Abu Samra, told Ma’an that four truckloads of Gaza tomatoes and eggplants would be shipped from the coastal enclave.

He confirmed that it would be the first shipment of its kind since Israel imposed a military blockade on Gaza in 2007 when Hamas came to power, Ma’an News Agency quoted by Mi’raj Islamic News Ageny (MINA) as reporting.

Before 2007, Gazan farmers used to regularly export carnations and strawberries to markets in the Middle East and in Europe.

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However, agriculture in Gaza has been heavily affected by the blockade.

According to a 2013 American Near East Refugee Aid report, 46 percent of agricultural land in Gaza has been made inaccessible or unusable due to destruction caused by the “security buffer zone” as well as recent military conflicts.

The blockade has also seen the import of agricultural products restricted, including fertilizers and building materials for irrigation and wells, desperately needed to rebuild Gaza’s infrastructure.

The labor force employed by farming dropped from 12.7 in 2007 percent to 7.1 percent in 2009.

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Because 90 percent of farmers have less than half an acre of land in Gaza, most farmers produce only enough to feed their families, and are unable to engage in commercial farming.  (T/P010/P3)

Mi’raj Islamic News Agency (MINA)

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