Global Date Fruit Market Research Report 2023-Competitive Analysis, Status and Outlook by Type, Downstream Industry, and Geography, Forecast to 2029

Global Date Fruit Market Research Report 2023-Competitive Analysis, Status and Outlook by Type, Downstream Industry, and Geography, Forecast to 2029

Date Fruits were one of the few crop plants that could survive desert conditions, and became a reliable source of food in an otherwise inhospitable climate. Sumerian, Babylonian, Egyptian, and other ancient people used the palm for house construction and thatching as well as for food. It was spread across northern Africa along the coast and at oases by nomadic people, where it became a staple crop. Dates are the fruit product of the date palm, a tree native to the Middle East and Africa. Date palms grow thick clusters of date fruits below their fronds. Unripe date fruits are green in color, and but they slowly turn yellow-orange as they mature. Fully ripe dates are a rich brown color with thick, glossy, sticky skin. The center of the sweet date flesh contains a small pit.

Market Overview:

The latest research study on the global Date Fruit market finds that the global Date Fruit market reached a value of USD 14934.93 million in 2022. It’s expected that the market will achieve USD 18243.94 million by 2028, exhibiting a CAGR of 3.39% during the forecast period.

In terms of regional distribution, the demand for dates in Europe will be relatively large in the future. In the global ranking of date importing countries by region in 2020, European countries are ranked relatively high. In Europe, more than 85% of imported dates come from developing countries. Intra-European trade includes simple re-exports on the date of import, but a large part of it includes value-added trade, including retail packaging and other businesses. In the past five years, European imports from developing countries have been increasing. The current growth and the expected increase in the number of imports provide good opportunities for suppliers in developing countries. The growing demand for healthy snacks and sugar substitutes, coupled with product innovation, is the driving force behind the growing interest of European consumers in dates. Likewise, sustainable and ethical production is becoming an important aspect for European traders and consumers.

Sugar substitute

The sugar consumption of people around the world is decreasing. Jujube is one of the sweetest fruits and contains only natural sugar. Therefore, date fruits are increasingly used as sugar substitutes. Innovative fruit snacks and other products containing dates often use clear labels, such as: no refined sugar, no added sugar, reducing sugar and low sugar. Jujube also adds flavor and color, replacing the need for artificial additives, thereby creating clear ingredient labels.

Requirements for Date fruit planting

Date fruit has the characteristics of drought-tolerant, alkali-resistant, heat-resistant and damp-like. Upper dry and lower wet is its ideal growth environment. From a global perspective, Date fruit varieties vary greatly and there are differences in production areas. For example, in the past fifty years, a large number of studies have been conducted on Date fruit cultivation through the All India Coordinated Research Project (AICRP) led by the Agricultural Research Council of India (ICAR). Almost all date varieties grown in India are imported from the Arabian Gulf and Middle Eastern countries. India has great potential to increase the production area of dates to meet local demand and produce dates for export. However, the cultivation, production, processing and sales of dates are still plagued by some problems. Low quality varieties, inability to obtain tissue culture plants, poor farm management, pests, diseases, lack of organized sales, and insufficient applied research are the main constraints for Indian dates. Restrictions on the cultivation of dates have limited the development of the industry to a certain extent.

Region Overview:

Middle East and Africa dominated the Date Fruit market in 2021, with a market share of 83.81%.

Company Overview:

Al Foah is one of the major players operating in the Date Fruit market, holding a share of 0.89% in 2022.

Al Foah Main

Al Foah is the world's largest date and date-based product processing and packaging company supported by the United Arab Emirates government. Al Foah has a vertically integrated and effective date procurement platform on which Al Foah will proactively purchase the worlds best quality dates from farmers at harvest time and store them in Al Foahs modern temperature-controlled storage facilities in. This platform gives Al Foah an advantage over the competition in terms of purchasing dates of any type and any grade, maintaining market date prices, ensuring quality and hygiene, and ensuring an uninterrupted supply of the required quantities to the market throughout the year.

Hadiklaim Date Growers

Hadiklaim is a cooperative that brings together the products and capabilities of Israel's leading date growers. Hadiklaim is owned by the grower, so Dates is Hadiklaim's expertise and exclusive rights. The cooperative consolidates the activities of Israel's largest and most advanced date producer, including quality control, management, marketing, sales and export activities. Hadiklaim and its members enjoy important advantages in the rapidly growing international market for dates and date products.

Segmentation Overview:

As for product types, the Conventional Date Fruit segment held the largest market share in 2021.

Application Overview:

The market's largest segment by application is the segment Whole Date product, with a market share of 72.49% in 2021.

Key Companies in the global Date Fruit market covered in Chapter 3:

Hadiklaim Date Growers
Maghadi Dates
Al Barakah Dates Factory
GNS Pakistan
Al Foah
Egyptian Export Center
Haifa Dates
Barari Group
Ario
Bard Valley Natural Delights

In Chapter 4 and Chapter 14.2, on the basis of types, the Date Fruit market from 2018 to 2029 is primarily split into:

Conventional Date Fruit
Organic Date Fruit

In Chapter 5 and Chapter 14.3, on the basis of Downstream Industry, the Date Fruit market from 2018 to 2029 covers:

Whole Date product
Date Syrup
Date Paste
Deep Processing
Cakes and Pastries

Geographically, the detailed analysis of consumption, revenue, market share and growth rate, historic and forecast (2018-2029) of the following regions are covered in Chapter 8 to Chapter 14:

North America (United States, Canada)
Europe (Germany, UK, France, Italy, Spain, Russia, Netherlands, Turkey, Switzerland, Sweden)
Asia Pacific (China, Japan, South Korea, Australia, India, Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia)
Latin America (Brazil, Mexico, Argentina)
Middle East & Africa (Saudi Arabia, UAE, Egypt, South Africa)