Volume 8 | Issue - 8
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Date palm (Phoenix dactylifera L.) is a source for various products, it produces, every year, dates that are, traditionally, considered as a basic aliment for the aboriginal population as well as a commercial product. This phoenicicole mass is also used for different purposes (building, heating, fodder, cooking, agriculture, therapy and cosmetics). Nine sites are retained for investigation. They represent localities which are notorious for having kept, so far, knowledge and know-how in the use of dates as well as other organs of the date palm, and where these products are likely integrated in the socio-economic life of their populations. The aim of this study is to determine the raw material of production, the uses of the date palm organs, dates’ fields of usage and the importance of the products derived from the phoenicicole mass in the commercial environment. We noticed that dates, used as a raw material, are available in a considerable tonnage. An important range of products made of dates are highly valuable, and are of culinary, medicinal and cosmetic nature. These products are biological and start making their place in modern trade, which might develop the local and national economy.