Called "desert toast bread", it is called date palm desert fresh fruit. In our country, the older generation, more familiar with it is another name, Iraqi date. A few decades ago, this kind of fruit, which is somewhat like "dates", was often imported from the Middle East. Because of the high sugar content, eat up a strong sense of satiety, in the previous years of food, it was once popular in Chinese folklore.

to make much money. The reality is that the price of dates is very high, high quality can be sold forty or fifty dollars a pound. And can be harvested for a long time, it is reported that a date palm tree grows to the fruiting period, can be harvested for 80 years. But it is in this case, dates have not been able to scrape the "fresh fruit fever" in China.

There are many reasons behind this, the first of which is the embarrassing name. Although that is not the main reason, but it does jeopardize the date sales and market. When you see a date palm, the first thing you should think of is that it is some kind of "jujube", similar to the jujube and the big green jujube, but the date palm is not a jujube, and from the point of view of botanical classification, it is related to betel nut.

Customers originally thought of eating jujube, pay money to buy jujube, a taste but is not the flavor of jujube, only to cry out to be cheated. This kind of "fake jujube" top the name of the real jujube, indeed to the date sales produce a little embarrassment. Another reason is that dates do not taste good after blow-drying. The most common way to eat jujube is to blow dry as a snack, but this thing after blow drying, and not like real jujube so soft, on the contrary, it is a little dry knot, bite down a little bit of effort, eat more than two cheeks is very easy to acidic.

Eating more mouth easily tired, and sugar over high. When you just eat it, it is still acceptable, but if you eat more than one or two, it is so sweet that it is snoozy. The cause of date sales in China in general, buy most of the people are fresh, not easy to do as a daily fresh fruit to buy, long-term trading industry prospects are not very good. No one to buy, naturally, no farmers want to plant.

The last reason

is also the most important, date palm tree growth for a long time very long. Better dates, indeed, can be sold dozens of dollars a pound, fruit trees can be harvested and planted for decades, seems to be a "fortune tree". But the premise of all this is that you may have to wait 15 years. If you are planting from scratch, date palms must develop for 10-15 years before entering the breeding process, at which time they can bear fruit. Fifteen years is a long time relative to the grower, and not many people want to wait.

And even if you wait 15 years until the date palm can bloom, you still have to wait another six months. A date palm tree blooms in March or April every year, but it takes until September or October to harvest. A date palm tree in the productive period can produce about 60 to 70 KG of dates a year, or hundreds of kilograms. Although the production volume is very high, but the date palm tree is generally 20-30 meters high, and the difficulty coefficient of harvesting is also large. In addition, the sales market is not big, the early planting period is long, etc., resulting in date palm trees in China is not very high economic returns.

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