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Article: Lebanon's Agricultural Cooperative Associations
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- July 9, 1996
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Cooperative Associations, which used to be an effective mode of
production in Lebanon's agriculture, are declining, threatening a
real crisis in the whole sector whose products comprised 13 percent
of the total exports in 1992.
Agricultural experts attributed the decline to the lack of
organized and balanced official support which has left the
agricultural sector short of ways to tap its potentialities.
Lebanon's unique topography makes only about 38 percent of land
area arable, and confines cultivation to around 22 percent in the
absence of full irrigation.
Nevertheless, compared with its neighbors, Lebanon is highly
favored by climate and soil for agriculture and in the case of fruit ...