... Iraq once supplied roughly 30 percent of the world's dates, an estimated 600,000 tons. But with fewer than 15 million date palm trees left in Iraq, production has dropped to only about 250,000 tons of the fruit annually.
To control the progressive loss of the crop and regenerate the industry, the Iraqi Ministry of Agriculture and coalition forces have teamed up to combat the problem by conducting aerial spraying in April and May...
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AubreyJ says: We do a lot over in Iraq... a lot more than the MSM ever reports. This is a site I like to visit, and often... to see what MSG Wegner and others are up to on a daily basis in Iraq... Click him at out- 2006 Tour of Duty
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