The daily average consumption of vegetables and fruit at the local market reaches 3000 tons. Those trees particularly olive trees are priceless.
Olive trees are as precious as life itself.
No figures can be put on this loss. The average daily consumption of fodder is estimated at approximately 2500 ton. Due to the alarming shortage in fodder, poultry was sold before time causing a big loss. The deterioration of security and the dangers posed by Jewish settlers in the occupied territories prompted Palestinian farmers to stop catering their farms in addition to being unable to reap their corps especially olive trees. Most of laborers working in this sector remained in their villages during the long duration of the total Israeli closure of the Palestinian areas.