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Vegetable market in Bahrain, circa 1930s.
Despite the low rainfall and poor soil, agriculture in Bahrain historically was an important sector of the economy.[1] Before the development of the oil industry, date palm cultivation dominated Bahrain's agriculture, producing sufficient dates for both domestic consumption and export.[1] At least twenty-three varieties of dates are grown, and the leaves, branches, buds, and flowers of the date palm also are used extensively.[1] From the 1950s through the 1970s, changing food consumption habits, as well as the increasing salinity of the aquifers that served as irrigation sources, led to a gradual decline in date cultivation.[1] By the 1980s, a significant number of palm groves had been replaced by new kinds of agricultural activities, including vegetable gardens, nurseries for trees and flowers, poultry production, and dairy farms.[1]
^ abcdeHooglund, Eric (1994). "Bahrain: Agriculture and Fishing". In Metz, Helen Chapin (ed.). Persian Gulf states: country studies (3rd ed.). Washington, D.C.: Federal Research Division, Library of Congress. pp. 122–124. ISBN 0-8444-0793-3. OCLC 29548413. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.{{cite encyclopedia}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
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