Is zakah obligatory on vegetables and fruits?

Question:
May Allah reward you. This questioner says: In our country, we have farms where there is an abundance of apricots and vegetables. We dry them and fumigate them, just as dates are dried and fumigated. Is there zakah on them if they reach five wasqs?

Answer:
The matter with vegetables and fruits is that they are not stored; they are not stored. Zakah is only due on every grain and fruit that is stored, measured, and kept. As for fruits, they are eaten immediately, and there is no report that they are subject to zakah in themselves. However, if a person gathers some of them with the intention of selling them, they become trade goods, and the zakah on trade goods is due on them.