Production of 16 date products in Tabas orchards
The head of the Jihad Agricultural Organization of South Khorasan said: the date palm adaptation station in Tabas city currently has 16 date products.
Gholamreza Haderbadi stated among the farmers of Tabas: Tabas city has 1750 hectares of palm orchards which are of good quality due to the weather conditions.
He added: Agricultural Jihad Organization is ready to pay facilities to applicants for the construction of greenhouses for growing and maintaining date seedlings through tissue culture.
Regarding the benefits of the method of propagation of dates by tissue culture, the head of the Jihad Agricultural Organization of South Khorasan stated: Date trees obtained from tissue culture are quite similar to the parents, so all parental traits such as yield, growth status, disease resistance and pests Produced plants are transferred.
Haderbadi stated: In this method, it is possible to mass-produce seedlings similar to the mother plant, and rare varieties of dates can be produced on a large scale.
He added: Date palm propagation by tissue culture can be done at any time and in any season, so it is not affected by seasonal conditions and the production time of seedlings is significantly reduced.
The head of the South Khorasan Agricultural Jihad Organization said: Transfer is easier and less expensive than other advantages of this type of cultivation, and the risk of spreading pests and diseases from one region to another is non-existent or very rare.
Plants from tissue culture produce one-handed gardens in terms of genetic structure and appearance, rapid growth and early fruiting, said Hadrabadi.