Milder winters, abundant crops and increasing forest cover all help them to thrive.

For many years, the fertile soil produced abundant crops of olives, peaches, apricots, oranges and lemons.

The area offered rich soil that, with irrigation, yielded abundant crops of wheat and vegetables.

There are many festivals throughout the year to pray for healthy harvests and abundant crops.

Farmers were producing abundant crops, but no one could afford to buy them.