50-year-old woman becomes first female tractor driver in Palestine

STORY: 50-year-old woman becomes first female tractor driver in Palestine DATELINE: Sept. 29, 2022 LENGTH: 00:05:06 LOCATION: Ramallah CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of Etihad Ayyad driving a tractor 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Arabic): ETIHAD AYYAD, Palestinian farmer from Jericho 3. various of Etihad Ayyad driving a tractor 4. SOUNDBITE 2 (Arabic): ETIHAD AYYAD, Palestinian farmer from Jericho 5. various of Etihad Ayyad driving a tractor 6. SOUNDBITE 3 (Arabic): ETIHAD AYYAD, Palestinian farmer from Jericho STORYLINE: Etihad Ayyad, a farmer from the West Bank city of Jericho, has recently become the first Palestinian woman to obtain a tractor driver's license. After her husband, who used to work with her on their 30-dunum (3 hectares) land, left the field to work elsewhere as a driver, the 50-year-old mother of six decided to earn her own driver's license because she didn't want to lose the land that she had been working on for 20 years. "I need a driver's license to transport my agriculture products

Palestinian farmers fear losing prickly pear fruits due to cochineal insects in West Bank

STORY: Palestinian farmers fear losing prickly pear fruits due to cochineal insects in West Bank DATELINE: July 3, 2022 LENGTH: 00:05:49 LOCATION: GAZA, Palestine CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the prickly pear 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Arabic): SHADY SALEH, Director of pest control department in General Administration of the West Bank Plant Agency 3. shots of Palestinian farmers checking crops 4. SOUNDBITE 2 (Arabic): MUAYYAD ABBAS, Local farmer from Faqqu'a town 5. SOUNDBITE 3 (Arabic): ABDEL QADIR NASSAR, Village council member STORYLINE: For the second year in a row, Muayyad Abbas, a local Palestinian farmer from Faqqu'a town, northeast of Jenin, fears he might be losing the prickly pear harvest season, due to the outbreak of the "cochineal bug" that is killing his produce. The 47-year-old father of three told Xinhua that he used to rely on the profits he earns from selling those fruits that he has been growing on his four-dunum land. It is meant to be his main income during the summer season. In th