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On January 30-31, 2020 we had a new phytosanitary inspection in the field produced by the Tragsa company of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. It is a control that is made every 6 months to palm Producers and Traders [...]

The red weevil (Rynchophorus ferrugineus) is a curculionido (beetle) and the Paysandisia archon is a lepidopter (butterfly). Both pests are the main scourge of the Ilicitano Palm, attacking a great variety of palm trees such as the Date Palm, Trachycarpus fortunei, [...]

Date palms were brought by the Arabs in the middle ages, as a structural element of the oasis. These palm trees are not wild, they are the product of an Arab settlement that had to survive in a place where there were no agricultural resources [...]

The flowering of the In Vitro date palm can be affected by the incidence of fungal attacks even before hatching of the bracts that protect the inflorescences. The practical consequence for the daticultor is that its production can be diminished [...]