Date Palm Cultivation

FAO
PLANT
PRODUCTION
AND PROTECTION
DATE PALM CULTIVATION PAPER
156
Rev. 1
Table of Contents
Edited and compiled by

Abdelouahhab Zaid
Chief Technical Adviser/Director
UNOPS - Date Palm Research & Development Programme
United Arab Emirates
Coordinated by
E.J. Arias-Jiménez
Agricultural Officer
Horticultural Crops Group
Crop and Grassland Service
FAO Plant Production and Protection Division
Produced within the framework of the Date Production

Support Programme in Namibia FAO-UTF/NAM/004/NAM
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Table of Contents
Foreword
Preface
Presentation
List of common abbreviations and signs
Chapter I: BOTANICAL AND SYSTEMATIC DESCRIPTION OF THE DATE PALM
1. Introduction
2. Systematic distribution
3. Botanical description
Chapter II: ORIGIN, GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION AND NUTRITIONAL VALUES OF DATE

PALM
1. Origin of date palm

2. Geographical distribution of date palm
3. Date nutritional value
4. Date products
Chapter III: THE ECONOMIC IMPORTANCE OF DATE PRODUCTION AND INTERNATIONAL

TRADE
1. World production and trade

2. Date exports
3. Date imports
4. European markets
Chapter IV: CLIMATIC REQUIREMENTS OF DATE PALM
1. Temperature requirements
2. Rain effect
3. Air relative humidity
4. Wind
5. Light
Chapter V: DATE PALM PROPAGATION
1. Introduction
2. Seed propagation
3. Offshoot propagation
4. Tissue culture propagation
5. Acclimatisation and hardening-off of tissue culture-produced date plants
Chapter VI: LAND PREPARATION, PLANTING OPERATION AND FERTILISATION

REQUIREMENTS
I. Land preparation
II. Planting operation
III. Fertilisation requirements
Chapter VII: DATE PALM IRRIGATION
1. Introduction
2. Factors infl uencing water requirements
3. Different irrigation techniques
4. Methods for calculating date palm water requirements
5. Leaching
6. Scheduling
7. Layout of date palm orchard and irrigation
Chapter VIII: POLLINATION AND BUNCH MANAGEMENT

I. Pollination
II. Fruit thinning
Chapter IX: DATE HARVESTING, PACKINGHOUSE MANAGEMENT AND MARKETING

ASPECTS
1. Introduction
2. Harvesting considerations
3. Facilities and process
4. Harvesting and packaging consideration for some important commercial date varieties
5. Other date palm products and by-products
6. Packinghouse management and quality standards
Chapter X: ESTABLISHMENT OF A MODERN DATE PLANTATION
1. Introduction
2. Technical establishment of a date plantation
3. Financial establishment of a date palm plantation
Chapter XI: DATE PALM TECHNICAL CALENDAR
1. Introduction
2. Technical calendar for planting tissue culture plants - follow up during the first year
3. Technical calendar for a date palm plantation older than 4/5 years
Chapter XII: DISEASES AND PESTS OF DATE PALM
1. Introduction
2. Fungal diseases of date palm
3. Phytoplasmic diseases of date palm
4. Diseases of unknown cause of date palm
5. Physiological disorders of date palm
6. Major pests of date palm
References
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List of common abbreviations and signs

Chapter I: BOTANICAL AND SYSTEMATIC DESCRIPTION OF THE DATE PALM

Chapter II: ORIGIN, GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION AND NUTRITIONAL VALUES OF DATE

1. Origin of date palm

Chapter III: THE ECONOMIC IMPORTANCE OF DATE PRODUCTION AND INTERNATIONAL

1. World production and trade

Chapter IV: CLIMATIC REQUIREMENTS OF DATE PALM

Chapter V: DATE PALM PROPAGATION

Chapter VI: LAND PREPARATION, PLANTING OPERATION AND FERTILISATION

Chapter VII: DATE PALM IRRIGATION

Chapter VIII: POLLINATION AND BUNCH MANAGEMENT

Chapter IX: DATE HARVESTING, PACKINGHOUSE MANAGEMENT AND MARKETING

Chapter X: ESTABLISHMENT OF A MODERN DATE PLANTATION

Chapter XI: DATE PALM TECHNICAL CALENDAR

Chapter XII: DISEASES AND PESTS OF DATE PALM

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