Vered Tomato Farm, Kadesh Barnea

This tomato farm of 70 dunams (17.5 acres) is owned by an individual who resides in the settlement itself. The tomato what you see is different from the usual ones what we consume and are called the cherry-tomato. In Israel, especially at the southern Arava desert region, where there is problem of high salinity and poor available water, this particular type of tomato is found to be growing fine. Due to the stress-response, cherry-tomatoes produces sugar inside the fruit! These sweet tomatoes have great commercial value and most of them are now exported to Europe in large scale.