Fresh Date insights

Headquartered in Aydın and serving all over Turkey with its 123 stores nationwide, Tuğba Kuruyemiş has completed its preparations for the month of Ramadan. Figs, Aydın's national fruit, took their place among the iftar dishes, especially for the month of Ramadan when dates are consumed the most.

Dr. Ahmed Helmy Hussein, Director of the Horticultural Research Institute affiliated to the Agricultural Research Center, said that a research team headed by Dr. Ahmed Othman Hamada, Head of Research at the Fruit Breeding Research Department at the Institute, was able to register five male date palms from the department's program at the Shendweel Island Research Station, in accordance with Ministerial Resolution No. 325 of 2024. This registration is the first in Egypt to register male palm varieties, under the auspices of Dr. Adel Abdel Azim, Head of the Agricultural Research Center. The Director of the Institute added that there are no males classified and registered before to pollinate different varieties of palms and import different palm varieties with great economic value. Dr. Ahmed Helmy Hussein, Director of the Institute, praised the research team and the effort made to make this work a success as the first registration of male varieties in Egypt. For his part, Dr. Ahmed Othman Hamada, Head of Research at the Fruit Breeding Research Department, said that male palms arise from seed cultivation, so they vary in all morphological characteristics, and when pollinated, some differences appear, such as early or late ripening and the percentage of falling, which also affects the physical characteristics. For fruits such as weight, diameter and length of the fruit as well as chemical properties.

Originating from the semi-desert areas of Morocco, the Mejhoul date, prized for its tender and juicy flesh