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ABOUT US |
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Al Wathba Marionnet LLC"
is a leading plant bio-technology company
established in Abu Dhabi in 1997, as part of
the U.A.E. Offsets program between France
and the United Arab Emirates. It is
considered to be one of the world's most
important producer of Date Palms through
plant tissue culture technology. Al Wathba
Marionnet owns a laboratory in Al Ain city
where it propagates high quality varieties
of date palm in mass quantities to satisfy
the increasing demand locally and
internationally. The strength of Al Wathba
Marionnet lies in the good results shown in
the fields where hundreds of thousands of
its date palms around the world are planted
and no genetic or physiological problem has
ever been reported.
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THE PRODUCT |
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Al Wathba Marionnet propagates more than
14 different varieties of date palm with
origins from; U.A.E, Saudi Arabia, Iraq and
Morocco. Additionally, Al Wathba Marionnet
looks into the rare varieties of superior
quality and propagate those which thrive
under the climatic conditions of U.A.E. and
the region. Hence, making rare varieties of
date palm available to farmers in big
quantities and at reasonable costs. Of these
rare superior varieties Al Wathba produces:
Zamli, Nawader, Ashal Al Hassa, Ashal Khalas,
Um Ed Dahan, Mumtaza in addition to the
males: Ghannami and Al Sekka. |
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PRODUCTION PROCESS |
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 Plants in-vitro
propagation, which is generally called
tissue culture, holds a group of techniques
which have in common the necessity to work
in aseptic conditions and to grow, during a
variable length of time, pieces of vegetal
material on sterile media. In Al Wathba
Marionnet laboratory we use the Somatic
Embryogenesis technology. Production process
spans over three major phases; in vitro
propagation phase (laboratory),
acclimatization & hardening phase
(greenhouse) and growing and maturing phase
(nursery).
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QUALITY FIRST |
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Al Wathba Marionnet
dedicate itself on producing high quality
date palm trees. This shows clearly in its
strict and accurate production protocols and
procedures, which are kept updated with the
latest developments of tissue culture
technology. As part of its commitment in
ensuring the genetic constancy and
true-to-type state of the trees, Al Wathba
Marionnet attaches a great importance to
monitor their genetic stability all along
the in-vitro process through carrying out
genetic finger printing tests. These tests
are regularly carried out on random samples
of plants at several growth stages by the
G.E.V.E.S. "Group for Control and Survey of
Varieties and Seeds" which belongs to the
French Ministry of Agriculture. |
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FIELD CONFIRMATION |
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 The best way to assess the reliability
of a technology is to perform plantations in
the field, in the same conditions as a real
grove, where the dates show up during the
season. A continuous follow up on the
morphology and fruit characteristics of our
plants during the first five years of
production is seriously ensured by several
independent official parties. These
independent parties vary from governmental
experimental stations to international
research centers all around the world.
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THE MARKET |
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Until 1997, Marionnet
G.F.A. (the mother company) used to supply
the markets of different countries in
Africa, the Middle East, the Gulf region
along with other date palm growing regions
in the world, either directly to customers
or through agents and distributors. Since Al
Wathba Marionnet was established and its
laboratory started production, the entire
existing marketing network that used to
belong to Marionnet GFA was transferred to
Al Wathba Marionnet. Presently, our
commercial network covers more than 16
countries around the world. |
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ADVISES FOR GROWERS |
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 Some advises that are
part of our experience in planting and
taking care of tissue cultured date palm
plants. Considering these instructions, will
help obtaining best results in field.
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