The pear tree I am looking at is nearly bent to the ground under the weight of fruit — 50-100 kg grows on each tree in this 50-year-old orchard. Then my gaze shifts to guava, plum, peach, and miles of kinnow and other citruses. And, of course, there was date palm. No, I did not visit Israel last month. I was in Abohar in Fazilka district of Punjab, at the border of Pakistan, and then crossed over to Sri Ganganagar district in Rajasthan. This is the region of the Rajasthan Canal, also known as the Indira Gandhi Nahar.
It was incredible
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