GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — After eight years of experimenting, Gazan farmer Massoud al-Zane last month succeeded in growing feijoa, an egg-shaped fruit with a cream-colored flesh and a jelly-like center, for the first time in Palestine.
During Al-Monitor’s visit to the nursery in Ezbet Abed Rabbo neighborhood of Jabaliya town, north of Gaza City, Zane was busy talking to some 60 university students who came from different agriculture faculties to listen to the success story of growing this fruit for the first time in the Gaza Strip. Zane, 52, said the feijoa is the fruit of the Acca sellowiana, a small tree commonly found in Brazil and northern Argentina that produces guava-shaped green fruit. The production cycle of feijoa takes a whole year, Zane said.
