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Economic and Financial Evaluation of a Low-Cost Portable Solar Dryer for Maturing and Drying of Dates: Business for Development (B4D) Report
One of the challenges affecting small scale date palm producers in the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf (GCC) countries is the destination of the goods that they cannot consume or sell. This is especially ...
Predicting Farmers’ Willingness to Adopt Liquid Pollination and Polycarbonate Drying Technologies: A Case Study from the Date Palm Growers in the Sultanate of Oman
This research paper aims to assess the adoption level of the two technologies (liquid pollination and polycarbonate drying houses) in the Sultanate of Oman, emphasizing the influencing factors of the adoption process and ...
Date Value Chain Analysis, Development, and Competitiveness of Date Palm Products in the Sultanate of Oman
This paper considers the vision of developing an efficient value chain and strategies to improve Oman's value chain. The critical factors of inclusive and sustainable development of the date value chain are determined to ...
Economic and Environmental Evaluation of Different Irrigation Systems for Date Palm Farming System in the GCC Countries: Case of Oman
In the frame of the ICARDA project “Development of sustainable date palm production systems in the GCC
countries of the Arabian Peninsula”, researchers succeeded to introduce one promising technology (subsurface drip ...
Economic and environmental evaluation of different irrigation systems for date palm production in the GCC countries: the case of Oman and Saudi Arabia
This study evaluates the irrigation water volumes’ effect on the date palm productivity and water
use efficiency under several conventional and improved irrigation systems (surface, subsurface,
bubbler, subsurface drip ...
Value Chain Analysis and Potential Competitive Advantage of the Date Palm Sector in Qatar: Challenges, Opportunities, and Key Indicators
The study aims to assess the date palm value chain and potential competitiveness of the Qatari date palm sector in the international market using three indicators: Market Shares (MS), Revealed Comparative Advantages (RCA), ...
Competitive Advantage of GCC Date Palm Sector in the International Market: Market Shares, Revealed Comparative Advantages, and Trade Balance Indexes
In the GCC countries, date-palm sector is strategically important for the economic, social and environmental development. Therefore, markets globalization has had a huge impact on the comparative advantages of date exports ...
Economic and Environmental Evaluation of Different Irrigation Systems for Date Palm Production in the GCC Countries: The case of Oman and Saudi Arabia
This study evaluates the irrigation water volumes' effect on the date palm productivity and water use efficiency under several conventional and improved irrigation systems (surface, subsurface, bubbler, subsurface drip ...
Development of sustainable date palm production systems in the GCC: Public-private-producer partnerships for a vibrant date palm industry and market
The Sustainable Development of Date Palm (DP) Production Systems in the GCC Countries project focuses
on producing knowledge and practices to improve date palm production. In 2006, the project
started its 3rd phase in 2018 ...
Economic Assessment of Agricultural Technologies in the Arabian Peninsula A Guide to Partial Budgeting – A Financial Management Tool
This manual is designed to serve as a guide to using partial budgeting for economic valuation and assessment of adopting new agricultural technology. It is intended to provide a framework for constructing a partial budget ...