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'The dates are drying': profits shrivel for farmers as the heat rises in Tunisia | Global development | The Guardian
Irrigation systems and oases in the arid south are failing to keep up with the demands of thirsty palm plantations
Mansour Rajeb is wrapping a plastic protective sheet around the branch of a date palm in his oasis near the village of Bchelli, in southern Tunisia. Tying it up, he lingers.
“I’m worried,” he says. “The quality is getting worse. The dates are getting drier.”
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Another page from the global climate change crisis.
Irrigation systems and oases in the arid south are failing to keep up with the demands of thirsty palm plantations
Mansour Rajeb is wrapping a plastic protective sheet around the branch of a date palm in his oasis near the village of Bchelli, in southern Tunisia. Tying it up, he lingers.
“I’m worried,” he says. “The quality is getting worse. The dates are getting drier.”
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Another page from the global climate change crisis.
