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Using AI to listen to Jordan's date palms
Amman, Jordan – Zeid Sinokrot was an unemployed engineer in 2012 when he decided to join the family business, growing dates on a farm outside Jericho. But his father's date palms began dying one by one, consumed from the inside by insects that were impossible to see until the trees began to keel over. Four years later, his father sold the farm. "I knew I wanted to find a solution to the problem," Sinokrot told Al Jazeera. "Trees were falling, and farmers were afraid."