The desert has bloomed. Who would have predicted 30 years ago that this terrain could support over 20.9 million date palms, making it that the largest producer of dates worldwide with a single factory processing 14,000 tonnes a year Or that UAE residents would some day taste their own production of home grown citrus fruits, mangoes, figs, cucumbers, carrots, cabbages, celery, lettuce, marrows, aubergines, beans, maize, and tomatoes? Or that Abu Dhabi alone would plant more than 120 million trees.
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