Abstract
The Date Palm (Phoenix dactylifera L.) is one of the oldest and best-known cultivated fruit trees. The fruit is composed of very nutritive minerals like potassium, calcium, iron, chlorine, phosphorus, and magnesium. The tree can withstand relatively harsh climate and soil conditions, which no other crop can match. In Ethiopia, date palm is cultivated and/or wildly grown in the Afar, Dire Dawa, Somali, Gambella and Benishangul Gumuz regions. However, the yields of local cultivars are too low to meet the sharply increasing demand. Thus, research has been conducted to evaluate and register the best-performing, desirable yield and quality of introduced improved varieties. Fourteen ( Two varieties (Barhee and Medjool), early fruiting types, were individually evaluated out of 12 varieties on the basis of fruit yield for two years at WARC, while vegetative parameters were taken from the other locations. The study revealed that Barhee and Medjool were superior to the remaining date palm varieties. The annual yield advantage of Barhee (68.39 kg tree-1 ) over Medjool (50.87 kg tree-1 ) was 34.44%. The high offshoot production potential of Barhee and Medjool varieties could reduce the purchase of imported tissue-cultured date palms by the country as well as individuals. In conclusion, the newly released varieties Barhee and Medjool could be cultivated profitably and sustainably for commercial cultivation in the low land areas of the Afar regional state and other similar agro-ecology, and could also increase the income of smallholder farmers and agro-pastoralists.
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Claims 5
Claim · model-written summary
Barhee and Medjool were superior to the remaining date palm varieties in fruit yield at WARC, Afar, Ethiopia.
- Taxon
- Phoenix dactylifera L.
Phoenix dactyliferae0 - Material
- Barhee and Medjoole1
- Outcome
- fruit yielde2
- Direction
- superiore1
- Comparator
- remaining date palm varietiese1
- Setting
- Afar Region, Ethiopiat0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The Date Palm (Phoenix dactylifera L.) is one of the oldest and best-known cultivated fruit trees”
e1“The study revealed that Barhee and Medjool were superior to the remaining date palm varieties”
e2“were individually evaluated out of 12 varieties on the basis of fruit yield for two years at WARC”
t0“under Irrigated Condition of Afar Region, Ethiopia”
Claim · model-written summary
Barhee had an annual yield advantage of 34.44% over Medjool.
- Taxon
- Phoenix dactylifera L.Phoenix dactyliferae0
- Material
- Barheee3
- Outcome
- annual yield advantagee3
- Direction
- higherinferrede3
- Value
- 34.44%e3
- Comparator
- Medjoole3
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The Date Palm (Phoenix dactylifera L.) is one of the oldest and best-known cultivated fruit trees”
e3“The annual yield advantage of Barhee (68.39 kg tree-1 ) over Medjool (50.87 kg tree-1 ) was 34.44%”
Claim · model-written summary
Barhee and Medjool could be cultivated profitably and sustainably for commercial cultivation in the low land areas of the Afar regional state.
- Taxon
- Phoenix dactylifera L.Phoenix dactyliferae0
- Material
- Barhee and Medjoole4
- Outcome
- cultivated profitably and sustainably for commercial cultivatione4
- Setting
- low land areas of the Afar regional statee4
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The Date Palm (Phoenix dactylifera L.) is one of the oldest and best-known cultivated fruit trees”
e4“the newly released varieties Barhee and Medjool could be cultivated profitably and sustainably for commercial cultivation in the low land areas of the Afar regional state”
Claim · model-written summary
The high offshoot production potential of Barhee and Medjool could reduce purchase of imported tissue-cultured date palms.
- Taxon
- Phoenix dactylifera L.Phoenix dactyliferae0
- Material
- Barhee and Medjoole5
- Outcome
- purchase of imported tissue-cultured date palmse5
- Direction
- reducee5
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The Date Palm (Phoenix dactylifera L.) is one of the oldest and best-known cultivated fruit trees”
e5“The high offshoot production potential of Barhee and Medjool varieties could reduce the purchase of imported tissue-cultured date palms by the country as well as individuals”
Claim · model-written summary
Barhee and Medjool could also increase the income of smallholder farmers and agro-pastoralists.
- Taxon
- Phoenix dactylifera L.Phoenix dactyliferae0
- Material
- Barhee and Medjoole4
- Outcome
- income of smallholder farmerse6
- Direction
- increasee6
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The Date Palm (Phoenix dactylifera L.) is one of the oldest and best-known cultivated fruit trees”
e4“the newly released varieties Barhee and Medjool could be cultivated profitably and sustainably for commercial cultivation in the low land areas of the Afar regional state”
e6“could also increase the income of smallholder farmers and agro-pastoralists”