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
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
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