Estimate and Identify Different Types of Fruit Losses During Harvesting Time in Saidy Date Palm (Phoenix Dactylifera L.) Cultivar Grown in New Valley, Egypt

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Central Laboratory for Date Palm Research and Development, Agricultural, Research Center

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This study was conducted during two successive seasons (2018 and 2019) to estimate and determined the most important loss types of fruits at harvesting time of Saidy cultivar (Semi- dray date) grown at El-Dakhla oasis, New Valley, Egypt. Our results indicated that the Mut area is considered the best region it has the highest percentage of sound fruits (79.52 and 81.51 %) and the lowest percentage of defective fruits (20.48 and 18.49 %) of Saidy cv. Data also indicated that the highest type of defected fruits was fruit wilting (34.56 and 35.04 %) for El– Gededa region in both seasons followed by mice damage (28.87%) for El–Sheikh Waly region in the first season and fruit wilting (33.55%) for El-Moshya region in the second season., Moreover the largest of loss cropping land and irrigation water were obtained from El-Qasr region . On the other side, the lowest loss of cropping land and irrigation water were obtained from El–Sheikh Waly region in two seasons, respectively. The main objective of this study estimates and determined the most important loss types of fruits at harvesting time as well as the loss of cropping land and irrigation water of  Saidy date palm cultivar grown in New Valley,  Egypt.

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