Palm Trees in Al-Ahsa
The Al-Ahsa region is boasting over 10 million palm trees. The Ministry of Agriculture has set up a factory to process its rich output of dates, amounting to five tons daily.
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“O Love, what hours were thine and mine,
In lands of palm and southern pine;
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Of olive, aloe, and maize and vine.”
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“The nectar and ambrosia, are withheld;
And in the midst of spoils and slaves, we thieves
And pirates of the universe, shut out
Daily to a more thin and outward rind,
Turn pale and starve. Therefore, to our sick eyes,
The stunted trees look sick, the summer short,
Clouds shade the sun, which will not tan our hay,
And nothing thrives to reach its natural term;”
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