of a large amount of date palms cultivated and harvested in iran, only about 11 – 12 annual percent is used in food processing and packaging industries. due to the poorq uality of produced dates, it is regarded as waste and is mainly used as feed stocks. thus, through producing syrup and liquid sugar from date palm of low quality could be regarded as a new opportunity to convert waste dates to ...

this study was conducted to investigate the effect of replacing barley with different levels of ground date seeds (gds) in the diet (0, 15, 3o and 45%) on performance of local growing male goats. sixteen local male kids (average live weight 16.1±1.41 kg) were allocated randomly to four treatments (4 animal/treatment). the trial consisted of a 14 day acclimatization period followed by a 60-day m...

Sweetness, a creamy texture and aroma, along with desirable kernel color, good germination, and high yield, are the important traits for sweet corn. Various recessive mutants in corn expressed in the endosperm e.g. sugary1 (su1), sugary enhancer (se), shrunken2 (sh2), brittle1 (bt) etc., which improve quality traits such as sweetness, flavor and nutritive value have been used either singly or i...

as a first step towards mechanization related to any product, including date fruit, it is necessary to have comprehensive information about the product. physical and mechanical properties are needed for the design of post harvest machinery and equipment. the objective of this study was to determine and compare some physical properties such as dimension, mass and volume, particulate density, pit...

in order to evaluate the effect of sugar beet sowing date, planting density and cultivar on solar radiation interception, a study was conducted in kamal-abad agricultural research station of sugar beet seed institute (sbsi) in 2005 and 2006. the experimental design was split-split plots based on randomized complete block design (rcbd) with three replications with two sowing dates as the main pl...