Date Cultivars
The Manasir are renowned all throughout the Sudan for cultivating a wide range of date palm cultivars. Any small farming household tends to grow a variety of dates in order to be less vulnerable both to annually changing market prices and diseases affecting only specific types.
The people are very proud of the taste, sweetness and nourishing merits of their dates and believe that theses originate from their rocky land containing special minerals. The dates from Dar al-Manasir compare well with dates of other regions in Sudan, although earlier reports qualify them as being of inferior quality not fetching the market price of fruits from (Old) Halfa and Dongola
Date varieties and the average wholesale price during the harvest season 2004
(Sudanese Dinar per sack Shawal, شوال – at about 75 kg; 1 Shawal = 15 Rub' (ربع) = 123.75 litres):
| Wad Laqai | (ود لقاي) | SDG 60 |
| Wad Khatib | (ود ختيب) | SDG 50 |
| Barakawi | (بركاوي) | SDG 75-80 |
| 'Abid Rahim | (عبد رحيم) | SDG 75-80 |
| Bur | (بور) | SDG 60 |
| Bireir | (برير) | SDG 60 |
| Qundeil | (قنديل) | SDG 75-80 |
| Bit Tamudhah | (بت تموضة) | SDG 65 |
| Gau | (جاو) | SDG 45-50 |
(prices reported by Al-Tayib Babikir Ahmad Muhammad from Mideimir (الطيّب بابكر أحمد محمّد من مديمر), local resident who studied agriculture for 4½ years in Halfah al-Gadidah.)
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