Official government website of the Government of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia 
The University, represented by the College of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, is participating in the Buraydah Dates Festival, which is being held at the headquarters of the Dates City in Buraydah, where the college is holding its exhibition on "The Palm" for 35 days during the period from Dhul Hijjah 1 to Muharram 5, 1441 A.H.
The "Palm" exhibition includes a full pavilion on the university and the palm tree, which shows the extent of the university's interest in this blessed tree, and explains the most important achievements of the university in serving the palm tree, in terms of its interest in studies and practical research related to the palm tree, as well as writing books and guidebooks on the palm tree, in addition to organizing international seminars and conferences interested in the palm tree, as well as the university's participation in local and international exhibitions and festivals that introduce the palm tree.
The exhibition also includes information about the red palm weevil convoys organized by the university to familiarize farmers and interested parties with ways to prevent this pest, as more than 800 farmers benefited from these convoys, in addition to displaying the scientific awards established by the university, including the Sheikh Abdullah Al-Sulaiman Joud Award, which is supervised by the College of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine and offers one million riyals every two years to the winners and researchers in the field of date palms.
The university was also keen through its exhibition to have a section concerned with the production of the date palm and deals with the multiple benefits of dates for humans, as well as real models of the date palm, including a model of the most important diseases of the date palm, which talks about the diseases and pests of the date palm, where there are real insects and pests that explain information about them to visitors, and a real model of the date palm with the most important products of the date palm and all the real and secondary products of the date palm, and a model of a date palm under which the most important varieties of dates are placed in a way that displays real natural dates for which the Kingdom is famous.
The university's palm tree exhibit showcases date by-products and the manufacturing industries that extract several products from the fruit, including: Date juice "molasses", vinegar industry, yeast industry, jam industry, animal feed industry, and the manufacture of compost from palm waste, where palm waste is chopped to be used to feed the soil and create a suitable agricultural environment for agriculture that retains water and helps improve the properties and fertility of the soil.
The palm trunks are used to make furniture, wood, and roof trusses, and the palm fiber is used to make ropes, mattresses, pedals, and artificial soil, in addition to utilizing the arjun in the manufacture of alternative fibers to bamboo and used as biofuel. The leaves of palm trees (fronds) are used in the manufacture of roofing, wall binding, traditional furniture, parquet, wood panels, paper pulp, animal feed and organic fertilizer, as well as making baskets and thermal insulation materials from palm fronds.
The exhibition provides visitors with a number of valuable information, including palm propagation methods, classification and geography of the date palm, as it displays the most important types of dates in the Kingdom in general and Qassim in particular, which are best cultivated and produced in the Qassim region, where there are favorite types that are famous in the Qassim region, such as Sukari, Saqi, Hashishi and Khalas Qassim, and there are other types from outside the region, such as Majdoul, Ajwa Al Madinah and other different types.
