RESTRICTION SUMMARY: Nablus– 16 December 2021. Palestinian woman Fatima al-Turabi harvests fresh turmeric at her plastic greenhouse, in the West Bank city of Nablus.

0.1 SOUNDBITE (in Arabic) Fatima al-Turabi

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Al-Turabi succeeded in cultivating turmeric for the first time in Palestine in a plastic greenhouse, as its original homeland is the regions of India and East Asia.

Turmeric is a flowering plant, Curcuma longa of the ginger family, Zingiberaceae, the rhizomes of which are used in cooking.[3] The plant is a perennial, rhizomatous, herbaceous plant native to the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia that requires temperatures between 20 and 30 °C (68 and 86 °F) and a considerable amount of annual rainfall to thrive. Plants are gathered each year for their rhizomes, some for propagation in the following season and some for consumption.

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