Egypt has drawn up a strategy to develop the palm date sector and associated businesses and increase exports. In 2020, Egypt produced 1.7 million tons of dates, contributing over 21 per cent of global ...

Jigawa State is steadily positioning itself as Nigeria's emerging hub for date palm production. It is blessed with a unique soil composition that allows date trees to produce fruits twice a year, ...

image: Dr. Ikram Blilou, Professor of Plant Science at King Abdullah University for Science and Technology (KAUST) with members of her research team collect date palm samples from the historical farm ...

Traditional flood irrigation is depleting groundwater and increasing soil salinity across the Gulf, endangering sustainable date palm farming, a senior Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) expert ...

The Iraqi Ministry of Agriculture, acting under Cabinet Resolution No. 209 of 2025, has signed a cooperation agreement with ...

Once known as the "country of 30 million palm trees", and home to 600 varieties of the fruit, Iraq's date production has been blighted by decades of conflict and environmental challenges, including ...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Standing in the middle of what was once a date palm oasis overlooking the Tigris River, Salim Abdulla al-Salim sees little hope in Iraq's quest to relive its heyday as the world's ...

It’s 3 a.m. in Nimpith, a tiny town in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal. Sixty-one-year-old Chuno Mistry heads towards a row of wild date palm trees. Mistry is a shuli, or date palm tree tapper ...