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Illustration - Iran

IRAN. SHIRAZ. SHOP OF DRY FLOWERS, HERBS AND FRUITS AT THE GREAT BAZAAR OF VAKIL, FIRST BUILT DURING THE XITH CENTURY. IT HAS NUMEROUS ALLEYS SPECIALIZED IN JEWELRY, RUGS, SPICES, CLOTHES.... Photo by Antoine Lorgnier/Only World/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Illustration - Iran

IRAN. SHIRAZ. SHOP OF DRY FRUITS AT THE GREAT BAZAAR OF VAKIL, FIRST BUILT DURING THE XITH CENTURY. IT HAS NUMEROUS ALLEYS SPECIALIZED IN JEWELRY, RUGS, SPICES, CLOTHES.... Photo by Antoine Lorgnier/Only World/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Illustration - Iran

IRAN. SHIRAZ. SHOP OF DRY FLOWERS, HERBS AND FRUITS AT THE GREAT BAZAAR OF VAKIL, FIRST BUILT DURING THE XITH CENTURY. IT HAS NUMEROUS ALLEYS SPECIALIZED IN JEWELRY, RUGS, SPICES, CLOTHES.... Photo by Antoine Lorgnier/Only World/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Illustration - Iran

IRAN. SHIRAZ. SHOP SELLING PISTACHIOS AND DRY FRUITS AT THE GREAT BAZAAR OF VAKIL, FIRST BUILT DURING THE XITH CENTURY. IT HAS NUMEROUS ALLEYS SPECIALIZED IN JEWELRY, RUGS, SPICES, CLOTHES.... Photo by Antoine Lorgnier/Only World/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Lake Urmia Going Dry After 12,000 Years - Iran

An Iranian-Azerbaijani father and son sits on a hay bale with the fruits inside the village. The 2023-2024 water year, which started on October 1, was hardly four weeks old when Iran’s Lake Urmia, once the Middle East’s largest lake and the sixth-largest saltwater lake on Earth, was reported to have gone dry. Studies show such an occurrence had not happened in 12,000 years. On October 9, as secretary of the Headquarters to Revive Lake Urmia, Mohammad Sadegh Motamediyan, governor of West Azerbaijan province, where part of the late sits, went on the Tehran TV network to claim that the lake still contained a certain volume of water. But satellite images and aerial footage later captured at the lake, on October 16, belie those claims. Urmia, Iran, October 2, 2023. Photo by Hamid/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Lake Urmia Going Dry After 12,000 Years - Iran

An Iranian-Azerbaijani father and son collects fruits from trees in the village. The 2023-2024 water year, which started on October 1, was hardly four weeks old when Iran’s Lake Urmia, once the Middle East’s largest lake and the sixth-largest saltwater lake on Earth, was reported to have gone dry. Studies show such an occurrence had not happened in 12,000 years. On October 9, as secretary of the Headquarters to Revive Lake Urmia, Mohammad Sadegh Motamediyan, governor of West Azerbaijan province, where part of the late sits, went on the Tehran TV network to claim that the lake still contained a certain volume of water. But satellite images and aerial footage later captured at the lake, on October 16, belie those claims. Urmia, Iran, October 2, 2023. Photo by Hamid/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Lake Urmia Going Dry After 12,000 Years - Iran

An Iranian-Azerbaijani father and son sits on a hay bale with the fruits inside the village. The 2023-2024 water year, which started on October 1, was hardly four weeks old when Iran’s Lake Urmia, once the Middle East’s largest lake and the sixth-largest saltwater lake on Earth, was reported to have gone dry. Studies show such an occurrence had not happened in 12,000 years. On October 9, as secretary of the Headquarters to Revive Lake Urmia, Mohammad Sadegh Motamediyan, governor of West Azerbaijan province, where part of the late sits, went on the Tehran TV network to claim that the lake still contained a certain volume of water. But satellite images and aerial footage later captured at the lake, on October 16, belie those claims. Urmia, Iran, October 2, 2023. Photo by Hamid/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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AFGHANISTAN-EID AL-FITR-MARKET

(230420) -- HERAT, April 20, 2023 (Xinhua) -- A vendor sells dry fruits at a local market ahead of the Eid al-Fitr festival, in Herat province, Afghanistan, April 19, 2023. (Photo by Mashal/Xinhua)

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AFGHANISTAN-EID AL-FITR-MARKET

(230420) -- KANDAHAR, April 20, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Afghan people buy dry fruits at a local market ahead of the Eid al-Fitr festival, in Kandahar province, Afghanistan, April 20, 2023. (Photo by Arghand/Xinhua)

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CAMEROON-YAOUNDE-WHITE PEPPER

(230117) -- YAOUNDE, Jan. 17, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Workers dry white pepper in Njombe-Penja sub-division of Littoral Region, Cameroon, Jan. 13, 2023. The penja white pepper produced in Cameroon's Littoral Region is world-renowned that is now in its harvest season. Plantation workers pick mature pepper fruits, soak them into water and ferment them, then remove the flesh to get white pepper seeds, which can be sold or processed after drying. (Photo by Kepseu/Xinhua)

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LEBANON-HASBAYA-FRUIT-FIGS HARVEST

(220821) -- BEIRUT, Aug. 21, 2022 (Xinhua) -- A girl puts fresh fig fruits under the sun to dry them in Hasbaya in southern Lebanon, on Aug. 21, 2022. (Photo by Taher Abu Hamdan/Xinhua)

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LEBANON-HASBAYA-FRUIT-FIGS HARVEST

(220821) -- BEIRUT, Aug. 21, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Farmers put fresh fig fruits under the sun to dry them in Hasbaya in southern Lebanon, on Aug. 21, 2022. (Photo by Taher Abu Hamdan/Xinhua)

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Afghanistan's export exceeds 400 mln USD in 3 months

STORY: Afghanistan's export exceeds 400 mln USD in 3 months DATELINE: July 28, 2022 LENGTH: 00:00:39 LOCATION: Kabul CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of trucks transporting coal STORYLINE: The volume of Afghan exports has exceeded 400 million U.S. dollars in the first three months of the solar year of 1401 on the Persian calendar beginning March 21, a local media outlet reported Wednesday. Tolonews quoted Mohammad Yonus Mohmand, chairman of the Afghanistan Chamber of Commerce and Investment, as saying that the country exported nearly 19,000 tons of fresh fruits and about 1.8 million tons of coal worth more than 400 million dollars over the period. Afghanistan's major exports composed of fresh and dry fruits are mostly exported to India and Pakistan, and coal utterly to Pakistan. Afghanistan has been making efforts to increase its exports to central Asian countries including Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan. Afghanistan's export reached more than 1 billion dollars in the solar y

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Iraqi farmers face intensifying water crisis amid climate change

STORY: Iraqi farmers face intensifying water crisis amid climate change DATELINE: June 16, 2022 LENGTH: 00:02:33 LOCATION: Baghdad CATEGORY: ENVIRONMENT/SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of a semi-arid river and farms that look cracked due to drought and water scarcity in Salahudin province 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Arabic): WALID ALI MOHAMMAD, Farmer 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (Arabic): JASSIM AL-FALAHI, Minister of Environment 4. SOUNDBITE 3 (Arabic): ALI RADHY, Spokesman for Iraqi Ministry of Water Resources STORYLINE: Among dried trees on his farm in Iraq's Salahudin province, north of Baghdad, Walid Ali Mohammad stood helplessly, complaining about the drought that killed his trees and animals and wiped out his family's only source of livelihood. SOUNDBITE 1 (Arabic): WALID ALI MOHAMMAD, Farmer "My farm and crops have gone dry. We used to sell fruits for millions (Iraqi dinars), but now I don't have water and my source of livelihood has gone because of this. So I have to leave to find a new source of livelihood for my children.

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Vegan cheese factory inaugurated in Argentina

STORY: Vegan cheese factory inaugurated in Argentina DATELINE: June 1, 2022 LENGTH: 00:02:39 LOCATION: Buenos Aires CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the factory 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Spanish): MAXIMILIANO KIPPES, General manager, Villa Flandria Vegan Foods 3. various of the factory 4. SOUNDBITE 2 (Spanish): SOFIA KIPPES, Head of Quality, Villa Flandria Vegan Foods 5. various of the cheeses STORYLINE: A vegan cheese factory has recently been inaugurated in Argentina, constituting a pioneering business within Latin America. Located in the Buenos Aires province of Cortinez, the factory Villa Flandria Vegan Foods is dedicated to the production of cheeses using a base of cashews. SOUNDBITE 1 (Spanish): MAXIMILIANO KIPPES, General manager, Villa Flandria Vegan Foods "We use dry fruits that have a very interesting balance nutritionally, and from there, we started to develop a traditional cheese factory but without the necessity of using milk that comes from animals." After supplying part of the internal dem

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Afghanistan exports figs worth 35 mln USD in 2021

STORY: Afghanistan exports figs worth 35 mln USD in 2021 DATELINE: April 17, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:26 LOCATION: Kabul CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of people selling figs in Kabul STORYLINE: Afghanistan exported figs worth 35 million U.S. dollars over the past year, said the Ministry of Economy on Sunday. A total of 7.155 tons of figs were exported in 2021, the ministry said on Twitter. Figs are widely grown in southern Kandahar and the neighboring Helmand and Zabul provinces. Mostly used as medicine in the traditional medical treatment among Afghans, the sweet fruit is largely used in homeopathic shops in the country. Fresh and dry fruits including fig, pistachio, melon, watermelon, raisin, pine nut and grape are the popular products for export in Afghanistan. Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Kabul. (XHTV)