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SAUDI ARABIA: Ban on planting palm trees on roads and parks to curb spread of red palm weevil

2021-02-26
By: TFNet News Compilation
On: February 26, 2021
In: Fruits News, News
With: 0 Comments

SOURCE: Saudi Gazette Saudi Arabian authorities have imposed a permanent ban on planting of palm trees along roads as well as in parks and gardens across the Kingdom. This is part of the measures to prevent the spread of the red palm weevil and in line with the recommendation ofContinue Reading

TUNISIA: Profits shrivel for date farmers as the heat rises

2020-01-18
By: TFNet News Compilation
On: January 18, 2020
In: Fruits News, News
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Mansour Rajeb is wrapping a plastic protective sheet around the branch of a date palm in his oasis near the village of Bchelli, in southern Tunisia. Tying it up, he lingers. “I’m worried,” he says. “The quality is getting worse. The dates are getting drier.”   Like thousands of farmers acrossContinue Reading

NIGERIA: Why is date palm production lagging?

2018-04-10
By: TFNet News Compilation
On: April 10, 2018
In: Fruits News, News
With: 1 Comment

Globally, Nigeria is the only country where date palms have two harvesting seasons in a year. Even in North Africa and the Middle East where the fruit originated from, they enjoy only one fruiting season.     Date palm trees enjoy rainy and dry fruiting seasons in the savannah regionContinue Reading

ISTF2024 Proceedings now available for download!

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TFNet joins Biopesticides Awareness Workshop co-organized by CABI

Workshop explains the benefits of biopesticides to farmers in the Cameron Highlands

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TFNet and CABI partner to promote the BioProtection Portal

CABI experts visit the TFNet head office

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ISTF2025 puts a spotlight on minor tropical fruits

The International Symposium on Tropical Fruits (ISTF2025) was held on 23-25 September at the Danala Education and Community Precinct, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Australia.

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