In addition, it is considered one of the pillars of national food security in the UAE. He expressed pride in his wise vision for the future of agriculture in the UAE in general and the date palm in particular.
The Award is a correct
Sheikh Nahayan Mabarak Al Nahayan, Minister of Culture, Youth and Community Development, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the International Khalifa Date Palm Award, expressed his thanks, appreciation and deep gratitude to the sponsor of the award, H.H. Bin Zayed Al Nahayan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, Deputy Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces for his support of the international Award confirming H.H.
The ceremony took place in the presence of many Arab Ministers of Agriculture, the accredited ambassadors in the country, in addition to the presidents of the regional and international organizations, a number of researchers and people interested in date palm, members. Helal Salem Al Khaili, the former Minister of Agriculture in the Sultanate of Oman, H.E. Mohammad Ibrahim Obeid Alah, and H.E.
E. Aziz Akhannouch
Current position: Director General of the Arab Organization for Agricultural Development (AOAD), League of Arab States. Chairman of the Arab Program for Integrated and Sustainable Rural and Agricultural Development in Darfur, Sudan.
Hon. Ali Mustafa Mohammed Al-Tajalli
Abu Dhabi Food Control Authority
Rehabilitation of the date palm sector in collaboration with the general state board of date palm GBDP, Ministry of Agriculture, Iraq. An important activity that took place in the project is the assessment of date palm production and potential market for the bulk production of the date fruit. The assessment provides a clear picture of the current status of the date palm sector in Iraq and a vision for its rehabilitation.
NAHAYAN CONFIRMED THE AWARD INTENTION TO ENHANCE THE UAE
He added that this is an additional indicator of the authenticity of the award in communicating with all groups of the local community, exploiting the art of photography as a means of developing public awareness of the importance of date palm and the date culture to devote to palm. It is worth mentioning that last year the UAEU completed the new administrative offices for the General Secretariat of the Award in the Islamic Institute building in Al Ain. He praised the UAE's pioneering role in serving the Blessed Tree in word and deed at the regional and international levels.
A MEMO. OF UNDERSTANDING THAT CONCORDS WITH THE
In turn, Abu Dhabi - New York University will carry out all processes of genetic sequencing technology and the genome investigation by submitting periodic reports to the UAEU on the progress of research and their results. Fabio Piano, the Academic Vice-Chancellor of Abu Dhabi – New York University expressed his happiness at the signing of this Memo. UAeU COLLABORATE WITH ABU DHABI NEW yORK UNIVERSITY TO DISCUSS THE GENETIC SEQUENCE OF LOCAL DATES.
AMBITIONS OF BOTH PARTIES,
It will also collect all reports and articles related to research to publish the results of the scientific research in international peer-reviewed journals. Al Noaimi confirmed that this memorandum is subject to instructions from H.H Sheikh Nahayan Mabarak Al Nahayan, Minister of Culture, Youth and Community Development, to establish cooperative relations with all competent authorities around the world to raise the level of scientific research in the UAEU and its positive impact on the local community.
SERVE AND DEVELOP DATE PALM TREE CULTIVATION
The Secretary General added that the meeting of the Scientific Committee came under the instructions of HH Sheikh Nahayan Mabarak Al Nahayan, Minister of Culture, Youth and Community Development, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Award of Khalifa International Date Palm Award. The agenda of the meeting included a comprehensive review of the award's works over the past five years and the search for new means to develop the award in such a way that it fulfills its strategic objectives as defined in its statute.
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE OF KIDPA MET
Afterwards, both the Libyan delegation and the press delegation visited the Palms And Dates Research Center (Date Tissue Culture Laboratory (DPTCL) for Propagating Date Tissue Seedlings) of UAEU in Al Ain, where they got an idea of the most important services and products that the laboratory offers to farmers. They looked at the technical mechanism for the production of tissue culture of date shoots and seedlings using the most modern technology in this regard, because it corresponds to the increasing growth in the cultivation of a large number of date palms in the UAE, where the production capacity of the Laboratory is 150,000 seedlings of the best types of dates annually. The tour ended with a visit to the headquarters of the General Secretariat of KIDPA in Al Ain, through which they got an idea of the most important achievements of the last five years at the local, regional and international level.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNALIST TOUR TO THE FACILITIES OF DATE CULTIVATION &
PRODUCTION IN THE UAE
Statistics : 2009-2013
Total number of participants
Arabic Countries
KIDPA Opens Nomination for its 6th Session 2014
Sheikh Mohammad Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abdu Dhabi, Deputy Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, and the succession of HH. Sheikh Mohammad Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abdu Dhabi, Deputy Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, and the succession of HH. He praised the qualitative participation of the award in the Emirates International Palm & Date Palm Festival in its seventh edition.
KHALIFA INTERNATIONAL” ATTRACTS LOVERS OF THE BLESSED TREE
Nahayan Mabarak Al Nahayan, Minister of Culture, Youth and Community Development, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Khalifa International Date Palm Award. He considered such participation as a promising opportunity to introduce all researchers, manufacturers, eminent academics and lovers of the blessed date palm worldwide with the Award categories to give them the chance to win one of its five categories. He added that the festival is a chance to build cooperation frameworks with the organizations and institutions involved in date palm tree cultivation and date production at the global level as the festival attracts more than 200 companies from all parts of the world, a fact that reflects the position of the UAE in the service of the blessed tree and the workers who take care of it.
PARTICIPATING IN THE EMIRATES INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL 2013
Introduction
One of the oldest fruit trees in the Arabian Peninsula and perhaps in the world is Date Palm (Phoenix dacyilifera). The Arabian Peninsula has also been the traditional home of the date palm for centuries, which has adapted to harsh environmental conditions there. Under these situations, the date palm is described as having its feet in the running water and its head in the fire of the sky (Erskine et al., 2004).
GLOBAL DILEMMA OF
The earliest evidence of date palm cultivation is reported in 4000 BC in Ur (now Iraq) while in the Nile Valley, date palm cultivation goes back to 3000 BC.
STAGNATING/ DECREASING DATE PALM YIELDS DURING
Global level dates
Regional dates production and
- Gulf countries
- Saudi Arabia
- Oman
- Yemen
- Qatar
- Kuwait
- Bahrain
- AL-Maghrab Arab countries
- Libya
- Tunisia
- Morocco
- Mauritania
- Other Arab Countries
- Egypt
- Iraq
- Sudan
- Non-Arab Asian Countries
- Iran
- Pakistan
- China
- Other countries of the world
The list also includes several other countries of the world such as Israel, the USA, Chad, Nigeria and Turkey. Morocco is recording the second lowest oil palm yield in the world after Mauritania (Table 2). China is the country that has made very good progress in the field of palm cultivation.
Dilemma of stagnating/
China was not included in the top 20 date producing countries in 1961, but was ranked twelfth in 2010. Chad, Israel and the US are the significant countries outside the world's four date production regions. Therefore, only 1.33% of dates are shared by the rest of the world, which may produce this product only for domestic consumption.
Date palm problems
The above presented data and discussion indicate that although there was a huge increase in world date production, it was all due to an increase in harvested area and not due to the increase in yield per acre. ha, as had been the case with almost all food crops such as wheat, rice, maize, sorghum potato and etc. These are listed as below and will be discussed in detail in subsequent articles in a series.
Greenhouse experiments to control the root rot disease showed that jojoba oil gave the best results in reducing disease severity, followed by plant protection, and the least was marjoram against L.
Introduction
Abstrct
INFLUENCE OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS, SALINITY AND ROOT
EXUDATES ON INCIDENCE AND DISEASE
SEVERITY OF LASIODIPLODIA THEOBROMAE THAT CAUSED ROOT ROT OF
DATE PALM OFFSHOOTS AND BIOCONTROLLING
Environmental Conditions The most important factors, including temperature and relative humidity, are most effective against pathogenic fungi, in terms of growth rate, incidence of root rot diseases and severity of date palm suckers (Arafat, 2011). Water salinity also reduced the growth of date palm seedlings and tended to increase the infection rate or increase the infection rate of seedlings inoculated with Chalara radicicola and C. Some of the compounds released by certain types of plants appear to have inhibitory activity against certain pathogens (Agrois reported that a variety of chemical compounds and proteins can be secreted by plant roots that could function to suppress the growth of root pathogenic fungi.
Materials and Methods
The fungus Lasiodiplodia theobromae grows at an optimum growth temperature of 28 °C, but no growth was observed at 40 °C (Saha et al., 2008), while the relative humidity optimum was observed at 70% (Arafat, 2011). Biological control of plant pathogens with microorganisms is considered a natural and environmentally acceptable alternative to existing chemical cleaning methods (Baker and Paulitz, 1996). They are free-living fungi that are common in soil and root ecosystems and promote plant growth and are effective in soil control.
Effect of abiotic and biotic stress on isolated fungus
The same method was applied to determine the optimal Rh% on the incidence and severity of root rot of palm seedlings in the greenhouse.
Water salinity
Root exudates
Plant extract
Natural oil
Bioagents commercial product
Statistical analysis
Results
Symptoms in the field (Fig. 1) were recorded on root rot and leaf base rot (A, B, C and D), pycnidia (E) and conidia spores were photographed under a microscope (F) at 20x X 40x.
Pathogenicity test
The data in table (8) showed that the most effective concentration of root exudates of all studied cultivars in reducing the linear growth of L. The effect of biological control agents (biotic or abiotic) on the linear growth of the fungus and the incidence and severity of the disease. The most effective concentration was C+ (fungicide) for reducing disease severity, followed by concentrations of bioagents compared to the control (C-).
Discusion
In addition, Banik et al. 1988) studied the effect of temperature, relative humidity and rainfall on the colony growth of Lasiodiplodia. Table (8): Effect of root exudates of date palm cultivars on reduction of linear growth of L. 2011b) they reported that the bioagents (biotic and abiotic) were effective in inhibiting the linear growth of soil-borne pathogenic fungi, and reduced the disease incidence and severity of root rot of date palm seedlings.
Conclusions
Survey and identification of major root rots of date palm and their relative importance in Egypt. Efficacy of some plant extracts, natural oils, biofungicides and fungicides against date palm root rot. Effect of salt on root rot disease of date palm and its control with special reference to Phytophthora palmivora (Butl.) as a new causative pathogen in Egypt.
