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Date Palm Status and Perspective in Morocco

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Date Palm Genetic Resources and Utilization

Abstract

In Morocco, the date palm is grown in several areas located on the southern flank of the Atlas Mountains along rivers and around water points. These areas are characterized by a pre-Saharan arid climate. The total number of 5.4 million date palms represents about 4.5 % of the palm patrimony of the world and is composed of 453 cvs. represented by nearly 2.8 million trees (51.8 %) and approximately 2.6 million khalts (48.2 %) originating from natural palm seedlings. Date production ranks first among fruit growing in the zones of oases and contributes 20–60 % of the income of oasis farmers. The diagnosis of date palm sector highlights the strengths, constrains, weaknesses, and opportunities of the sector. With the exception of some modern palm farms, the agricultural practices are generally traditional in oases. The Green Morocco Plan (PMV) designed and monitored by the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries (MAPM) designated this crop as a priority to give new impetus to the agricultural economy in oasis areas. Researchers investigated date palm protection especially to control bayoud disease, cultivar characterization, tissue culture micropropagation, and date valorization. Main development actions include distribution of over 1.5 million of vitro-plants since 1987 to farmers in order to restructure and reconstitute palm groves, encouraging investments and facilitating of new planting, encouraging research on water dynamics and participatory actions of water users, installation of refrigerated storage and some date processing, promoting domestic marketing and exports and ensuring of national coordination and networking of actors of date palm sector in the context of a Geographic Information System (GIS). The cvs. described were chosen for their level of representation. A promising future is expected for Moroccan date palm oases if all the actors reinforce the economic challenge and awareness of preservation of the environmental ecosystem.

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Sedra, M.H. (2015). Date Palm Status and Perspective in Morocco. In: Al-Khayri, J., Jain, S., Johnson, D. (eds) Date Palm Genetic Resources and Utilization. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9694-1_8

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