A woman shows a cherry hat at the Hammana Cherry Festival in the village of Hammana, Mount Lebanon Governorate, Lebanon, on June 12, 2022. (Xinhua/Bilal Jawich)
CAIRO, June 13 (Xinhua) -- As the hot summer comes, it is quite a pleasure to have a bite of juicy summer fruit such as cherry and apricot.
Now, it is the harvest season for cherry and apricot in the Middle East region which is renowned for the good quality of the two kinds of fruit and the long history of planting them.
Cherries are displayed at the Hammana Cherry Festival in the village of Hammana, Mount Lebanon Governorate, Lebanon, on June 12, 2022. (Xinhua/Bilal Jawich)
A boy carries a basket with cherries at the Hammana Cherry Festival in the village of Hammana, Mount Lebanon Governorate, Lebanon, on June 12, 2022. (Xinhua/Bilal Jawich)
People visit the Hammana Cherry Festival in the village of Hammana, Mount Lebanon Governorate, Lebanon, on June 12, 2022. (Xinhua/Bilal Jawich)
A Palestinian man displays apricots during the harvest season at a farm in al-Shuyoukh village, east of the West Bank city of Hebron, on June 12, 2022. (Photo by Mamoun Wazwaz/Xinhua)
A farmer airs apricot juice to make apricot paste, a famous product in Syria, at a farm in Damascus, Syria, June 11, 2022. (Photo by Ammar Safarjalani/Xinhua)■
