Priority
areas
Prize

• Digital models for date palm farms management
• Physiological, biochemical and molecular mechanisms involved in date palm
• Techniques/technologies for Water Use Efficiency for date palms irrigation
• New recipes/products development (food or non-food product)
• Development of efficient pollination techniques in date palms and selection of efficient use of the best male date palm tree

• Innovations in date palms pruning/harvesting/protection etc
• Techniques for improving date quality, post-harvest handling, processing, and packaging
• Innovative biotechnological techniques to genetically improve date palm trees
• Nutritional significance and health benefits of date, and dates-based products
• Modern and efficient methods and scientific approaches to reduce or reuse the waste of date palm and the produced dates