Mazafati Dates South Africa
If you've never tried date fruit before, it's perhaps not surprising. Mazafati Dates whilst they are a popular staple food of the Middle East, where they have been around for thousands of years, they are not as commonly found elsewhere in the world. In essence, dates are the fruit of the date palm. Date Fruit is a small, oval fruit with a seed in the middle. The word date actually comes from the Greek work 'daktylos', meaning 'finger' due to their shape. There are many different varieties of dates, each with its own unique texture and taste, and varying in colour. Ajwa date fruits are available in various forms. They are available as whole dried fruit, either with or without the pits. They are used in to make various products including cereal, bread, cakes, pudding, ice cream, cookies, candy bars, and novelty products such as date shakes. The date fruit can also be used in the production of juice, jam, wine, beer, vinegar, sugar, jellies, syrup, date cubes, honey, chutney, pickle, dip, date sugar powder, paste and food flavoring.
The geographic distribution of the date palm is wide. It is cultivated from the zones that lay between the 15th and 35th parallels of latitude in the northern hemisphere. The date palm can be classified as a desert plant that is best suited to semi-arid and arid climates, however particular varieties of date palms perform differently within these zones. Some varieties are better suited to coastal regions (Mediterranean) whilst other varieties have evolved in an inland desert setting and may require a higher winter chill factor to induce spring flowering, or extremely dry heat to successfully ripen fruit.
In 1980, creation in Saudi Arabia was delivered to almost a half-million tons through 11 million palms due to government subsidies, enhanced technology, along with a regal decree which dates be contained in foods in government as well as civic institutions and that hygienically-packed dates be frequently obtainable in the marketplaces. Growers obtain financial rewards for every offshoot of the high-quality date planted in a recommended spacing. The Ministry of Agriculture has generated training programs through the entire nation to show modern day agricultural techniques, which includes mechanization of all Mazafati Dates company probable procedures in date culture, as well as acknowledgement and also particular roles of the numerous nearby cultivars. In West Africa, close to the Sahara, just dry, sugary types could be developed.
Government and private processing and packing installations seem inadequate, though no current information is available. In 1347 Š./1968 there were sixteen small private packing houses in Ḵorramšahr (ʿEnāyat, p. 70) and a large state-owned plant equipped with machinery supplied by Hayʾat-e ʿamalīyāt-e eqteṣādī-e Āmrīkā dar Īrān (the American AID mission in Persia), with an annual processing capacity of 3,000-5,000 tons (Faršī, 1339 Š/1960a, p. 86). Before the war between Persia and Iraq in the 1980s there was also a plant producing 5,000 tons of date syrup (šīra-ye ḵormā) and about 2,500 tons of residue for cattle feed annually. Nearly 4.2 tons of syrup were obtained from every 6 tons of dates (Edāra, p. 16); it was used in chocolate, biscuits, canned food, and the like.
