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Article: Billion-shekel plan to grow citrus in Negev
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- Jerusalem Post
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- April 5, 1995
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Batsheva Tsur
Jerusalem Post
04-05-1995
ISRAELI farmers will, for the first time, begin growing citrus fruit and olives in the Negev, under a new scheme launched by the JNF and the Agriculture Ministry.
The one-billion shekel plan envisions bringing large quantities of water and topsoil to the arid, saline area over the next three years, to prepare it for agriculture, JNF Chairman Moshe Rivlin said yesterday. Work has already begun on the infrastructure for hothouses and orchards and the first seeds are expected to be planted in November, he said.
Large tracts of land will be turned into "hothouse parks" where farmers will rent the hothouses on an annual basis. The crops in the south ...