The palm date best varieties of Al Jufrah Libya - poster

Abel

Bamour

Deglet

Kathari

Halima

Noyet Meka

Saila

Talis

Berni

Hamria

Omglaib

Tagiat

Tameg

Bestian

Saiedi

Sokeri

Tasferit

Zebur

Realised in the framework of the Cooperation Project "Improvement and Valorisation of Date Palm in Al Jufrah Oasis". Financed by the General Direction for Development Cooperation of the Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs. Implemented by Istituto Agronomico per l'Oltremare of Florence (Italy) in partnership with the Board of Improving and Developing Olive and Palm Trees (Tripoli, Libya); with the technical collaboration of the departments of Agricultural Biotechnology, Agricultural and Forestry Engineering, Crop, Soil and Environment at the University of Florence and the Slow Food Foundation for Biodiversity.

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The palm date best varieties of Al Jufrah Libya - poster

Published on Feb 13, 2011

massimo battaglia

The present study has been conducted in the framework of the Italy - Lybia bilateral cooperation project "Improvement and Valorisation of Date Palm in Al Jufrah Oasis", funded by Iatlian Cooperation and carried out by Istituto Agronomico per l'Oltremare (Italy) in collaboration with the Libyan Ministry of Agriculture. In this framework, the characterisation and description of local varieties, performed through the sampling and description of genetic, morphometric and chemical characteristics, is accompanied by an integrated study of the palm dates cropping system in the Al Jufrah Region. Such study has been carried out by means of the set up of Geographical Information System of Date plantations for the five oasis of Waddan, Hun, Sokna, Zellah and Al Fugha.