BLACK BURSA AND SARILOP( dry fig)

Source : Dato Sayed Elias

A Turkish friend came,and we have some good topic of conversation about figs cultivation in particular BLACK BURSA AND SARILOP( dry fig) very very valuable information that I gather,and also some surprised methode to preserved good quality fresh figs, and quite lenghty discussion, In Shaa Allah in future I will elobrate and share this info,and his orchard is producing few thousand tonne per season not in kilo but in tonne of BLACK BURSA.

Origin of FIG

Middle English fige, from Anglo-French, from Old Occitan figa, from Vulgar Latin *fica, from Latin ficus fig tree, fig

First Known Use: 13th century

Any plant of the genus Ficus, in the mulberry family, especially Ficus carica, the common fig. Yielding the well-known figs of commerce, Ficus carica is native to an area from Asiatic Turkey to northern India, but natural seedlings grow in most Mediterranean countries, where figs are used extensively, both fresh and dried. It is a bush or small tree with broad, rough, deciduous leaves.

Hundreds of different varieties are grown in various parts of the world. The fig was one of the first fruit trees to come under cultivation. Its fruit contains significant amounts of calcium, potassium, phosphorus, and iron.