Assessment of Some Soft Date Palm Cultivars Grown under the Conditions of Aswan Governorate

Abstract

The current research was set up during 2019 and 2020 seasons to appraisal some soft date palm (Samany, Zaghloul and Barhee) grown in Aswan governorate, Egypt. Under this study Vegetative gross properties and fruiting traits, as well as arithmetic and economic evaluation were studied.The present results cleared that Samany and Barhee date palm cultivars gave the best rating of generality investigated of vegetative growth characteristics in comparison to Zaghloul date palm cultivar. In the contrary, Zaghloul date palm gave the upper components of yield next by Barhee date palm, whereas Samany date palm gave the less value. No significant differences were found among Barhee and Zaghloul date cultivars in components of yield. Barhee cultivar get the best fruit quality next by Samany cultivar, whereas, Zaghloul cultivar gave the lowest one with insignificant differences with Samany date cultivars.From the numerally assessment of date palm cultivar, it can be coordinated in descending set as next: Barhee (92.5), Zaghloul (85.6) and Samany (79.5 units).These results clarified that Barhee and Zaghloul date palm are appear favorable to get a high crop with best quality of fruit compared to Samany date palm cultivar under Aswan conditions. In addition, preference of Barhee cultivar to the superiority of its price and demand for export.