| Mostly desert, with only 2 percent of its territory arable, Libya's major exports were esparto grass and scrap iron from its World War II battlefields. |
| Seeds to germinate bio esparto, radish, fennel of Germline, a source of highly assimilable essential nutrients. |
| A fibre called alfa, a variety of esparto, which grows wild on the high plateaux, is exported in large quantities. |
| The pasture field was overgrown with an abundance of esparto grass, but the area where the carcass was found was clean and scorched. |
| Also in the west, esparto grass grows naturally on the region's steppe plains. |
| The decline of the esparto grass industry led to no little unrest among some of the native tribes of northern Africa. |
