Five winners named for Dh3.5 million Abu Dhabi date palm awards

Five winners named for Dh3.5 million Abu Dhabi date palm awards

The winners contribute to the development of the date palm sector and agricultural innovation worldwide.. The winners of the Abu Dhabi date palm award that focuses on agricultural innovation were announced on Wednesday.. A total of Dh3.5 million will be distributed among the five winners in the four categories of the Khalifa International Award for Date Palm and Agricultural Innovation 2020.. Dr Ikram Blilou from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia won the Distinguished Innovative Studies and Modern Technology category for her project "Emergent Protective Organogenesis in Date Palms: A morpho-devo-dynamic adaptive strategy during early development.. The Climate-Smart Livelihoods Initiatives and Market Access Tailoring project presented by the America University of Beirut (AUB) in Lebanon, won the Pioneering Development and Productive Projects award.. In the Pioneering and Sophisticated Innovations Serving the Agricultural category, Al Nakhil, a Dubai-based firm, was announced the winner and awarded Dh750,000 for their project, "The impact of using the Subsurface - TERRAPLUS tube (T+) system on irrigation amounts and yield for date cultivation".. The winners of the Influential Figure in the Field of Date Palm and Agricultural Innovation category were Prof Kazuo Shinozaki from Japan and Dr Hasnaa Harrak from Morocco.. While