"It may sound surprising, but we are pioneers," says Eitan Ronan, who left the high-tech industry in Tel Aviv and moved to become a grower in the desert in the South of Israel.
Eitan Ronen and his wife were looking for a house with a garden and traveled as far as possible - to grow pineapples in the desert. "It sounds like a hallucination. They told me: 'Make tomatoes, that's what's right'. But we're pioneers. If I don't have tropical conditions, I'll create them. I'll grow them as close as I can," he says passionately.
The harsh weather conditions, the loss of governance, the agricultural thefts, and the lack of labor - all these will not break Ronen’s ambitions. In the Negev plateau, near the border with Egypt, there are farmers of a different breed, the only ones in the world who manage to grow fruits and vegetables from faraway places and different from the Israeli climate in the arid desert.
Source: Perot.org.il