date:Jul 02, 2018
in the 1980s and 1990s that Iraqi dates were the best, he says. Quality combined with quantity: a 28 kilogram box of dates would sell for less than $1 because the fruit was so readily available.
Even the American invaders who came in 2003 loved the dates. Most bought the Zahdi types, says Hajji, referring to a dry kind of date. They would just come in and stuff their pockets.
Years of sanctions, conflict and displacement, coupled with a precarious economy, culminated in a decline in the produc