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A leading sector of the Palestine economy is the Palestine Agriculture. The Palestine Agriculture symbolizes a major constituent of the GDP of the economy. The agricultural sector in Palestine gives the possibility of employment to a large number of people of Palestine.
Agriculture in Palestine is the chief earner of the overseas exchange and provides the essential needs of the most of the local population. Agriculture at Palestine is separated into rain-fed and irrigated cultivation.
The Palestinian agriculture zone shares the joint distinctiveness of both concentrated irrigated farming as well as the widespread rain-fed farming which is prevailing in the highlands of the West Bank. The rain-fed farming forms the primary cultivated area of the total cultivated Palestinian land.
The cultivation of fruit trees is the key segment of production of plant in Palestine. The main fruit trees of Palestine are grapevines, olive trees, citrus, figs, almonds. In the West Bank of Palestine the grapevines form the second among the major fruit crops. In Palestine more than 30 different vegetable crops have been planted.
The type of agriculture that takes place in Palestine is yearly and cyclic agricultures such as grains and vegetables. In the Gaza Plain, Marj ben Amer and some of the inner plains grain plantation was grown.
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