only part of the village land was cultivated and the rest was covered with woods of oak, laurel and carob trees. by 1948, the village owned about 600 dunams (600,000 m²) of private property with groves of fig trees that served all inhabitants of iqrit and the surroundings. the groves covered the hill of al-bayad, and the remaining cultivated land was used for crops of lentils, as well as tobacco and other fruit trees.