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Agriculture in Iran. Roughly one-third of Iran 's total surface area is suitable for farmland, but because of poor soil and a lack of adequate water distribution in many areas, most of it is not under cultivation. Only 12% of the total land area is under cultivation (arable land, orchards and vineyards) but less than one-third of the cultivated ...
1954,0508.1. The Nimrud ivories are a large group of small carved ivory plaques and figures dating from the 9th to the 7th centuries BC that were excavated from the Assyrian city of Nimrud (in modern Ninawa in Iraq) during the 19th and 20th centuries. The ivories mostly originated outside Mesopotamia and are thought to have been made in the ...
China. South Africa. Brazil. 1 Wood fuel includes all wood for fuel as firewood, wood pellets, and charcoal. 2 Sawnwood includes all sawn wood, dimensional lumber. 3 Wood-based panel includes all plywood, particleboard, fiberboard and veneer sheets. 4 Paper and Paperboard includes all paper, sanitary paper, and packaging materials.
Iran (officially called the Islamic Republic of Iran) competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris from 26 July to 11 August 2024. Since the nation's return in 1948 after having made their debut in 1900, Iranian athletes have appeared in every edition of the Summer Olympic Games except for Moscow 1980 and Los Angeles 1984, citing political reasons.
The history of Iran (or Persia, as it was commonly known in the Western world) is intertwined with that of Greater Iran, a sociocultural region spanning the area between Anatolia in the west and the Indus River and Syr Darya in the east, and between the Caucasus and Eurasian Steppe in the north and the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman in the ...
A man bags up cocoa in Soubré, Côte d'Ivoire.. The crop is grown in Ivory Coast mostly by smallholder farmers planting on 1 to 3 hectares. [8] The pods containing the beans are harvested when a sufficient number are ripe, opened to separate the seeds and pulp from the outer rind, and the seeds and pulp are usually allowed to ferment somewhere on the farm, before the seeds are dried in a ...
The estimated total world production of coconuts in 2022 was 62,409,431 metric tonnes, down 0.6% from 62,791,068 tonnes in 2021. [ 1] Dependent territories are shown in italics. Indonesia, The Philippines and India produce around 72% of the world's total copra, [ 1] with Indonesia and the Philippines also being the world's main coconut oil ...
Salerno Ivories. The Salerno Ivories are a collection of Biblical ivory plaques from around the 11th or 12th century that contain elements of Early Christian, Byzantine, and Islamic art as well as influences from Western Romanesque and Anglo-Saxon art. [1] Disputed in number, it is said there are between 38 and 70 plaques that comprise the ...