style palace made out of oranges at the Najran Citrus Fruit Festival which opened on Tuesday. The guard is real. The Minster of Agriculture said that the Kingdom's citrus fruit production accounts for only 3 percent of the local market, making export impossible. “We need to increase local production by three times what it is now, and we import huge quantities to cover the lack of local production,” said Minister Fahd Al-Ghunaim. “There is a ban on the import of seedlings in order to prevent viruses coming into the Kingdom, in the same way as we ban the import of sheep.”
