The Dates is the oldest known cultivated tree crop and one of the least written about and the least understood of all fruits produced. Every time a dates seed is being planted, a new kind of dates is originated, just as every time a child is born, a new kind of person is brought into this world. The only way to perpetuate a variety is to propagate its offshoots. A dates palm produces at or near its base, 5 to 25 offshoots or suckers during the first 10 to 15 years of its life.

It usually requires from 5 to 10 years for an offshoot to develop a root system of its own, at which it is safe to remove it from its parent and plant it in the garden. After it is planted, it requires an additional 8 to 15 years to bring it into full bearing.

    Dates palms are delicious. Female flowers produce the fruit and male flowers produce the pollen. Two good mail palms will usually produce enough pollen to pollinate about fifty female palms.

Like any fruit, there are many varieties of dates, each with its own distinctive taste, texture, color, size and flavor. These varieties might be of SOFT DATES with soft flesh, high moisture and low sugar or of SEMI-DRY dates with firm flesh, low moisture and high sugar or of DRY DATES with hard flesh, low moisture and high sugar.

 

Main Varieties

Mozafati, Rabbee, Sayer, Shah, Estameran, Zahedi, Kabkab, Barhi, Khazravi, Piyarom, Sang, Zarday, Shawi, Farkan and Tala.

 

Nutritional Values

Dates is a high calory foodstuff and is rich of Phosphor, Calcium, Magnesium, Sodium, Potassium and Vitamins A, B1 and B2.

 

Form of Consumption

Consumed as fresh fruit and is used for producing dates syrup and honey, liquid sugar, animal feed and date chocolate.

 

Industrial & Medicinal Uses

As raw material for vinegar production.

 

Composition Of Dates Per 100gr Of Edible Portion

Main Varieties

Mozafati                           Rabbee                           Sayer

                            

Shah                                  Zahedi                               Pyarom

         

Zardy                            Kabkab                           Farkan

     

Tala                                            Sang

 

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