Achievements of ICARDA and its National Partners in Date Palm Cultivation and Production

During the lecture, Mr. Abousabaa highlighted the achievements of ICARDA’s project on developing sustainable date palm production systems in the GCC countries – launched in 2016 in cooperation with all National Agricultural Research System (NARS) centers in the GCC countries. The project focused on five research themes that correspond to the GCC countries’ priorities: crop management, post-harvest transactions, integrated pest control, biotechnology, and economic and social studies.