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THE ECONOMY - DATE PALM
 42 million date palms planted in UAE to change the colour of the desert landscape
Posted on 04/03/2010
Under the leadership of H.H. The President Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahayan, there are continual efforts to increase UAE date palm productivity in order to make better use of the date palm industry and to produce an agricultural leap that will change the face of the UAE desert. Indeed, the Fourth International Date Palm Conference illustrates the special attention and priority given by His Highness to this important economic sector.
The present conference is the fourth one in a series of
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 UAE uses DNA to identify data palm species
Posted on 25/02/2010
UAE University's Date Palm Research Unit has established a molecular laboratory applying advanced DNA technique to identify species of date palm.
Dr. Abdul Wahab Zaid, Head of the Unit, said the DNA technique would help much in genetic confirmation of plants as the Unit produces about 150,000 date palm seedlings a year and this needs focused attention on production quality in order to meet local and global production markets. This technology, he added, provides the most fastest and full-proof
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![]() MoEW launches national campaign to combat red palm weevil
Posted on 14/10/2009
Under the directives of Deputy Prime Minister '&' Minister of Presidential Affairs H.H. Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the Ministry of Environment '&' Water today launched a nation-wide campaign to combat menace of the Red Palm Weevil (RPW). The three-year campaign is aimed at realising the ministry's strategic goals, including maintenance of food security.
Minister of Environment '&' Water Dr Rashid Ahmed bin Fahd said the campaign's success rests on many elements such as simultaneous
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 Dates could hold future of creating local biofuel
Posted on 03/10/2009
Dates could hold the answer to creating a cheap and readily accessible biofuel in the UAE thanks to their high sugar levels which can be turned into ethanol fuel.
The technology exists, however the concept lacks investors despite the enormous amount of dates which go to waste every year in the Arab world.
In the UAE alone, from 50,000 to 80,000 metric tonnes of dates are grown in excess, which could fuel the production of 17,000 to 26,000 tonnes of bio-ethanol - enough to meet the needs of
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 Research project to preserve original dates from country
Posted on 23/08/2009
Originality is the essence of nature's creativity. Scientific fiddling with nature to produce man-decided good traits in crops through genetic modification may feed more hungry mouths but can eliminate original plant varieties from the face of the earth.
The prospects have led a UAE scientist to initiate a research project to identify and preserve the original varieties of the date palm - a tree that has special significance in Emirati life, culture and tradition.
"The authenticity of these
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 Farmers gear up to pick tonnes of dates as harvest season begins
Posted on 05/08/2009
Farmers have begun reaping dates, the biggest single agricultural crop of the country, with the start of the annual harvesting season in the Emirates.
The harvesting season lasts until November and the farmers pick dates from more than 42 million date palm trees across the country. The major concentration of the trees is in Al Ain which has emerged as the agricultural centre of the UAE.
"We are expecting to receive thousands of tonnes of different varieties of dates this year at our
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 Date festival concludes with more than 60,000 visitors
Posted on 27/07/2009
Liwa: As the fifth Liwa date festival came to an end on Sunday, about 75 farmers were rewarded for producing the best types of date through the season.
Sheikh Hazza Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, National Security Adviser, yesterday visited the Liwa Date Festival. He was accompanied by Juma Saeed Hareb, Undersecretary of Agriculture Sector in Abu Dhabi, Mohammad Khalaf Al Mazroui, Director General of the Abu Dhabi Culture and Heritage Authority, and a number of senior officials.
Winners were given
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 Government commences initiative to market attractive varieties of date
Posted on 25/07/2009
Al Gharbia - In a strong incentive to the farming of refined varieties of date in the country, the Ministry of Environment and Water has commenced an initiative to market the perfect staple produce.
Through this initiative, the ministry plans to encourage the traditional farmers of date to shift from cultivating varieties of low returns to more lucrative types of date with refined taste, nutritional value and higher economic viability.
There are hundreds of varieties of date in the country
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 First Emirati woman named to join the jury at the Al Ratab competition
Posted on 25/07/2009
Al Gharbia - Nada Zuhair Al Adib was named as a member of the panel of judges who will vote the best date exhibit at the 5th Liwa Date Festival 2009 currently running in the Western region.
Nada, an Emirati citizen, is the first woman to join the panel and will participate in selecting the country's most exquisite, most delicious and most refined variety of date.
This year, the criteria of selecting the best date has been reformed to include the way of cultivating the date palms, the type
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 Nahyan grants 10000 date palm seedlings for winners at Liwa Festival
Posted on 23/07/2009
H.E Sheikh Nayhan Bin Mubarak Al-Nahyan, Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research and Chairman of Trustees of the Khalifa International Date Palm Award (KIDPA) has grated 10000 seedlings date palm trees for winners of the contests of the fifth Liwa Al Ratab (palm date) Festival being held in Al Gharbia (Western Region) city of Liwa.
The date palm seedlings offered by Sheikh Nahyan, who is also the Chancellor of the UAE University, are among the best productions of researchers at
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 Cross-pollination offers wide variety of new dates
Posted on 19/07/2009
New types of dates are growing due to cross-pollination and today there are more than 120 types of dates in the UAE, an expert said.
Some of the popular types of dates which exist now were grown more than 1,000 years ago.
He said it is impossible to count all the types of dates. "In the Arabian Peninsula and Iraq, for example, there are thousands of types, while in Iran and Libya there are more than 400 types," he said.
The dates in the UAE are registered with the Ministry of Environment
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 Fifth Liwa Date Festival kicks off
Posted on 17/07/2009
With total prize money of about Dh3 million, the fifth Liwa date festival will kick off in Al Gharbia (formerly the Western Region) on Friday morning, organisers have said.
The festival is being organised by the Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage (ADACH) under the patronage of Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Presidential Affairs, and aims to preserve the heritage of Abu Dhabi.
"Palm and ratab [dates] represent a fundamental pillar of our
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 Liwa Date Festival launches web portal
Posted on 14/07/2009
The organising committee of the fifth Liwa Date Festival has announced the launch of a web portal dedicated to the festival both in Arabic and English as part of the ongoing preparations. The festival is held on July 16-27 under the patronage of HH Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Presidential Affairs, and organised by the Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage (ADACH). - Emirates News Agency, WAM
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 Ongoing preparations for fifth Liwa Date Festival
Posted on 03/07/2009
Intensive preparations for the fifth Liwa Al Ratab (Date) Festival continue apace, according to the event's Organising Committee.
The festival is held on July 16-27 under the patronage of HH Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Presidential Affairs, and organized by the Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage (ADACH).
"The festival enjoys simplicity as well as quality and excellence," said Mohammed Khalaf Al Mazroui, Director General of ADACH and
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 Three-year Red Palm Weevil pest management drive to be launched soon
Posted on 02/07/2009
The Ministry of Environment and Water is bracing to launch a three-year nation-wide campaign to control Red Palm Weevil (RPW), the most dangerous and deadly pest of date. Sultan Abdullah Alwan, Acting Executive Director for Agricultural and Animals at the Ministry, said the RPW control programme aims at increasing levels of biological security as part of the country's policy to achieve food security.
'A general strategy has been chalked out under which Integrated Pest Management techniques
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