Research into date palm improvement for fruit production in recent decades has brought about improved elite cultivars, stress and pathogen resistance, and enhanced postharvest technologies. These developments have led to revised recommendations for date palm producers, and increased opportunity to promote novel fruit products.

This book provides: a practical manual on modern date palm cultivation; best practices for optimal fruit production levels of high-quality fruit; and opportunities for more complete utilization of the multitude of products the date palm can provide at both the subsistence and commercial level of production.