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Agriculture.

4ji increasing number oi *J-abs ere- becoming
interested m agriculture and ever: year more
lanQ is being put under cultivation, in the

past nothing was grown in the gardens except
dates, lucerne ana local vegetables but now
three or lour landov/ners are making experiments
id growing nuropean vegetables ana different

kinds of fruit. Last year cabbages, cauli­
flowers ana potatoes were grown xocaiiy, though
in small quantities, ana soia in the bazaar

where they found a ready market, Unfortunately
it doesnot seem possible to grow vegetables in
Bahrain an through the year, curing the summer
months irem June tin October omy iocai vege­
tables can be grown.

muring the year io5u fruit trees were
imported into Bahrain, these included orgnges,
mangoes, limes etc. fne government bought

a few goon quality-mangoes from India ana it
appears that some of these are li^eiy to produce
fruit during the first year, The example of

the government in planting oranges at oinaian
has undoubtedly encouraged many people who own
gardens to experiment in growing oranges- and
there is every reason to expect that the experi­

ment wiii be successful. Last year*s crop
from oinaian was siirhtiy greater than the
previous year ana the oranges were very large

and of goou quality,
u&tes. over 7,uuU young date trees were
imported into Bahrain, mostly iron oaounit-Arabia,
inspite of the very heavy’ export auty which has