| Headline: Oil outweighs a green revolution Source: Euromoney Date: July 2001
Central Bank governor Bashar Kabbarah is especially effusive in highlighting the progress that has been made in agriculture, describing the accomplishments of the past 15 years as a “green revolution”. He says: “Up until the middle of the 1980s we imported food, even wheat. Now, in spite of the increase in the population level, and in spite of the bad weather we’ve had in recent years, we have an excess of agricultural products. We have 70 million olive trees and we are now producing double the amount of olives and olive oils than we consume. Last year we produced 1.07 million tonnes of cotton and this year we expect to produce even more. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||