Introduction
Date cultivation has had a very important effect on the history of the Middle East. Without dates, no large human population could have been supported in the desert regions. The group routes existed for centuries, mainly for the transportation of dates. Early on, date cultivation became a sanctified symbol of productiveness and fertility. Dates had great spiritual and cultural significance to the people of the Middle East. Date palms and culture are depicted in earliest Assyrian and Babylonian drugs, including the famous Code of Hammurabi, which contained laws pertaining to date culture and sales.
Historical Evidences
Saudi Arabia is the Mother land of the Date Palm Tree. With more than 10,000 years of age, it is one of the oldest trees in the world. Many countries transferred the palm trees from Saudi Arabia to other places in the world after they became amused by its polite beauty and its boundless generosity. For example, the great Alexander was the first to introduce palm trees in Pakistan. And with the entrance of the Kalifa Abdualrahman Aldakel has first palm tree entered Spain. This ran to its availability in America, because it was introduced to Mexico for the first time by the Portuguese and then it reached the United States during the 18th century.
In Islam, dates have received more attention than any other fruit. For example, Prophet Mohammed encouraged Muslims to opportunity their fast at the sunset during the month of Ramadan by dates and water. He once said that if a person has some dates in his house, then he is not poor. Nowadays, Saudi Arabia is the second biggest producer of dates in the world.
Saudi Arabian date fruit is well known for its delectableness i.e. if the date is tested once, a person wi...
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Date Palm has been proved to be a valued plant in opposing desertification. It creates a unique microclimate, which allows other plant species to survive in the mottled sunlight that enters through the cover of the date palms. This shade house effect reduces evapo transpiration rates and raises humidity, which facilitates a secondary food production system by introducing other plant species.
The global production of date fruits is about 5.4 mn metric tons per year. The five largest producers are Egypt, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, & Iraq. Approximately, 93% of dates gathered in the country are consumed within.
Date palm is a traditional crop and in current decades, has gained taking in 40 countries including US, South Africa, and Australia. Major importers are India, United Arab Emirates, Pakistan and Malaysia.
This book focuses on different types of calendars from a number of different places all around the world. This specific chapter, even more specifically this section, focuses on the Mayan calendar. These calendars were written by honored members of their aristocracy and were held to be of great value. The Spanish invaders believed them to be instruments of the devil and burnt great quantities of them. E. G. Richards explains that only four Mayan books are survive in the libraries of Europe, and one of those—The Dresden codex—suffered severe damage in another fire, one which was inflicted on that city in the Second World War. Richards says that the earliest record of a calendar survives from about 500 BC in Monte Alban near Oaxaca. This calendar employs a 260-day cycle, which was commonly used by several societies and is still in use among the present-day inhabitants of the region. The Maya used the calendar partly to anticipate propitious days to embark on wars and other activities. It was also used to record on stone pillars, or stelae, important events in the lives of their kings and to relate these to more mythical events of the past. The Mayan calendar system involved two major methods of specifying a specific date—the calendar round and the long count. The calendar round was used to specify a date within a period of about 52 years, while the long count served to relate such dates within a longer period named a great cycle. The calendar round involved three interlocking cycles of 13, 20, and 365 days respectively. The 365-day cycle was called a haab and was similar to the Egyptian wandering year. Each haab was divided into 18 periods called uinals; each uinal had 20 days and a name. The 18 uinal were followed by five epagomen...
Sinaloa Mexico is known as the home of the world’s largest and most powerful drug cartel. Sinaloa is also the largest producer and exporter of tomatoes to the United States and Canada. “Half of all Mexican fruit and vegetable exports come from the state of Sinaloa, located in northwestern Mexico. Sinaloa mainly exports in the winter season, primarily vegetables, and fresh market tomatoes are the number one export crop” (Cook). In 2012, “Sinaloa exported 950,000 tons of vegetables, mostly tomatoes and mostly to California and other parts of the United States, worth nearly $1 billion. Half the tomatoes eaten in the United States” during winter months “are from Sinaloa” (Wilkinson).
The Pecan tree is a native tree to North America. When early European settlers traveled across the sea to settle in the New World, they found pecan trees located in numerous places in this new land. Since then, the pecan tree has become one of the most important orchard species in terms of acreage. Indians began using pecans almost 8000 years ago in what is now Texas. The first budded pecan trees were produced in Louisiana in the mid-1800s and orchards have been established throughout the Southern states. The first recorded shipment of pecans to England was documented in 1761, by Spanish and European explorers (Anderson and Crocker, 2004). In 1917, a commercial shipment of pecans came out of Georgia and since then, Georgia has been the leading producer of pecans. Although Georgia is the leading producer, in some years collections of pecans from wild trees in Oklahoma and Texas surpass the production in Georgia.
Maple trees first originated in China or Japan, and expand into about 100 species. " Of the four North American species good for sugaring, the hard or rock maple, Acer Saccharum, produces sap of greater quality and in greater quantity than the others and accounts for most of the syrup produced today." (On Food and Cooking, pg. 383).
The key influence of the coca market comes from the Andean countries of South America: Peru, Bolivia, and Colombia. These countries are responsible for almost exclusively cultivating the coca plant, but Colombia is the main processing nation of the plant into cocaine, at nearly 70 percent (Stares, 2).
on tropical agricultural products, such as coffee and bananas and its climate and resources are
...ch with the requirement climates of the fruit, but these countries have their own best fruit according to their unique climates. For example, Italy produces lots of wine (make from fruits), Greece produces quite large amount of olives, while Spain produces the most fruit that I mentioned above because Spain has a suitable climates for growing fruit. So climates are very important to fruit that they might affect the fruit they grow.
The cultivation of rice has had an enormous impact on the natural biome. Rice has affected the natural biome that it is grown in, in a devastating way. It has caused the natural biomes to deteriorate and caused the natural way of life to collapse leaving no place for the native animals and plants. But what would happen if the cultivation of rice stopped and the natural biomes returned to their former glory? What would happen to all those people depending on rice for the next meal? Those who depend on rice to pay for and keep their families alive? This report looks at the where, effects, who and how of rice cultivation.
Introduction Palm oil is considered an essential ingredient for the production of foods and other products in which human use. The Orangutan Project (2015) states that ‘palm oil is derived from the fruit of the oil palm tree’, and the ‘palm oil plantations are the main driver for deforestation in Indonesia’. The harvest of the palm trees for the production of palm oil affects the ecosystem as it can affect the environment. This investigation highlights the advantages of the palm fruit providing nutrients, it is essential for the production of products, and this production being that palm oil can reduce poverty. The negatives of how the production of palm oil negatively affects the environment, the habitat of the animals, and social consequences such as the loss of income.
Cosmetics, soap, chocolate, and frozen meals. These general products all have something in common; they include palm oil, a resource found in oil palm trees located primarily in Indonesia and Malaysia. Palm oil is a valuable resource that is contained in many everyday products. However, the mass consumption of this ingredient caused wide deforestation in wildlife’s natural habitat and is leading to the endangerment of several animal species. Sustainable palm oil is grown and harvested by companies on private land to avoid deforestation and harm to wildlife, so people should consider purchasing products that include sustainable palm oil rather than palm oil taken from natural forests.
According to Global Meat news Brazil is the largest beef exporter in the world with over five billion worth of beef exports each year. Brazil has gone from the fourth largest producer to the largest in less than a decade. Argentina was once one of the largest beef exporters in the world but in recent years there beef exports have decreased due to measures introduced by the Argentinean government to discourage beef exports to feed their growing domestic need for beef consumption. These restrictions on beef exports have recently been lifted and Argentinean beef exports are set to rise once again in the coming years.
The Bread Palm or Encephalartos Cupidus is a very rare and attractive dwarf cycad with blue green leaves that usually grows to about three feet tall. It may be found in South Africa’s steep slopes, rocky grasslands or in open forests. Its name, Encephalartos Cupidus, means desirable or highly attractive, the name originates from its desirability as a collected plant. The Bread Palm is an endangered species because is was constantly collected and separated from its habitat. Blyde River Nature Reserve keeps the plant safe where it can be monitored and taken care of.
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