When Farmers Talk to Farmers… By Meic Llewellyn
Zaytoun on April 4th, 2010Haitham Hasasneh is an agronomist with twenty years of experience in agriculture, He comes from a village to the north of Bethlehem and now lives in Ramallah, a city in the middle of Palestine’s West Bank. “We love our olive trees,” he told me when I met him in Machynlleth last week, “and our farmers know each one as an individual. I’m sure Welsh farmers are just the same with their fields, and their sheep.” Many of the olive groves – and the trees within them – are over a thousand years old, and the same Palestinian families have been tending the plantations for centuries.
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