The Arab Organization for Agricultural Development opened on Sunday, December 25, 2022 AD, The activities of the Qatari training course in the field of date palm production and care, “Main Horticultural Operations for Date Palm Care”, Which is implemented by the organization in its regional office in the Arab Middle Region in the Arab Republic of Egypt. For the benefit of 35 participants from among the cadres of agricultural researchers working in the date palm sector, This comes within the framework of the Arab Organization for Agricultural Development’s annual program for country training in the Arab countries. The course, which lasts for five days, aims to introduce the participants to the methods of palm propagation. establishing nurseries, Palm propagation (shootings – tissue culture), ground service (heading and fertilizing), Palm head service (pruning, curving, bagging, slippers).

The course includes several topics related to the selection of stallions and the processing of pollen grains. It also includes dates and methods of vaccination and general problems of vaccination, and the process of pruning and grafting and the dates of their execution, and how to benefit from pruning outputs, And also the process of lightening, its methods and the dates of its conduct, Curving and quantifying operations, The program also includes irrigation systems and methods of establishing them. And the water standards for irrigation and the effect of irrigation on the different stages of growth, In addition to organic and nano-fertilization and their impact on production and harvest, And the reasons for the loss of dates, as well as post-harvest transactions.