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The Million Date Palm Plantation Project in the Sultanate of Oman aims to enhance economic growth, social development, and environmental awareness through the expansion of date palm cultivation. The project consists of 11 farms located across different regions, each housing between 10,000 and 100,000 palm trees, and incorporates smart farming techniques like drone pollination. These farms, including those in Nizwa, Ibri, and Samail, utilize modern agriculture practices to increase coverage and automate tasks, contributing to the project's goals of agricultural advancement and sustainable development.
Key Facts
The Million Date Palm Plantation Project seeks to boost Oman's economic growth and social development.
The project currently includes 11 farms spread across various regions in Oman.
Each farm hosts between 10,000 to 100,000 date palm trees.
Nakheel adopts "smart farming" using technologies like drones for pollination.
The Nizwa farm, located in Al Dakhiliyah Governorate, spans 1.5 Km2 and contains 25,000 date palms.
The Ibri farm, in Al Dahira Governorate, covers approximately 3 Km2 and has 11,000 date palms of various varieties.
The Al Safa farm, also in the Al Dahira Governorate, will host 100,000 date palms across 12Km2 upon completion and relies on groundwater irrigation.
Agroecological Practices on Traditional Date Farms
Agroecological Practices on Traditional Date Farms
Agroecology is a set of agricultural practices that considers the natural environment in crop cultivation. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations defines it as the science and practice of applying ecological concepts and principles to manage interactions between plants, animals, humans, and the environment for food security and nutrition. Sustainable agroecological systems in agricultural production aim to create balanced natural resource utilization while maintaining adequate and profitable food systems to ensure food security and thriving farming communities in line with the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Date is one of the most suitable crops for achieving sustainable agroecological farming systems, particularly in harsh agroclimatic regions of the world. This chapter covers the basic concepts of sustainable agroecological systems and links to the SDGs, utilizing date palm as a model crop. Although literature concerning agroecology in general, and on date palm particularly, is lacking and there are plenty of gaps to be filled, this chapter highlights the importance of both the practice and the science of agroecology in date production. Case studies and examples from Oman and around the world are presented in the hope that this will drive further research on this topic and the adoption of sustainable agroecological elements in agriculture and crop production.
The lime: botany, production and uses
The lime: botany, production and uses
This book is a comprehensive and up-to-date resource covering the botany, production and uses of limes. The lime is an important fruit crop throughout citrus producing regions of the world, with its own specific benefits, culture and marketplace, but producers face issues affecting successful cultivation and production. The Lime: Botany, Production and Uses contains detailed information on:
Breeding, genetics and biodiversity of limes
Orchard establishment, management and precision agriculture
Pests and diseases, including the latest knowledge regarding current threats such as Witches' Broom Disease and Citrus Greening
Harvesting and postharvest management
Traditional and commercial uses of limes
Authored by an international team of experts and presented in full colour throughout, this book is an essential resource for academic researchers and specialist extension workers, in addition to growers and producers involved in the citrus industry.
Introduction and overview of lime
This chapter introduces the lime crop (Rutaceae), discussing its taxonomy, history, origin, distribution, global production, plant description, propagation, cultivars, pests, diseases, and uses. Although the documented history of limes is more than 700 years old, the parentage and origin of limes is not clear. Advancement of biotechnological and molecular tools can aid in resolving these issues. Lime plants are facing a number of problems across the world, including excessive attacks from insect pests. The emerging threats to the lime industry are climate change impact and new diseases. Substantial work on rootstock intervention on other closely related citrus fruits (e.g. oranges, mandarins and grapefruit) has led to remarkable achievements. However, very little work has been reported on rootstock scion interaction on lime, and it is hard to find standard rootstocks being used for limes. Lime genetic resources are eroding and face serious threats and losses. These valuable resources need to be preserved and broadened for future crop improvement programmes by the breeders and geneticists. Keeping in view the customer and industry demands, new lime cultivars/hybrids are expected to emerge to meet the demands of different countries across the world. Conventional and emerging biotechnological tools are creating interesting new lime genotypes, which will include biotic/abiotic resistance as well as possessing health/ornamental values.
Video Introduction
This video is an interview with Prof. Rashid Al-Yahyai, focusing on the broad area of biotic and a biotic plant stress caused by many environmental and climatic factors. The researchers are searching for solutions to continue to ensure food security and food production. Using various techniques during production and Postharvest, including molecular, physiological and mechanical means to reduce food loss and increase food production and plant resilience to stress. Collaboration with researchers and institutions worldwide is key to facing the challenges in food production and food loss and waste.
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