Palm trees with big trunks, sometimes one thinks that they are such tall trees, but when the summer season comes, the date fruit spreads everywhere in our village and people eat the date fruit with great enthusiasm. Today I will tell you about the date fruit, which we call Duka in our language. Duka is a fruit that is not yet ripe, but its sweetness and benefits are so great that you will be amazed. Today I went to the market and saw the date fruit, which we call Duka. This Duka fruit was available in large quantities in the shops. I went to the shop and when I tasted the date fruit there, it was so sweet and juicy that I felt like I was eating honey because many flavors are hidden in the date fruit and the date fruit that you see hanging in large bunches of date palms is actually from the date trunks. They have been cut and brought here, and people buy the date fruits in bunches.
There are many types of date palm fruit. The fruit that grows on the date palm is also broken raw and we call this raw date fruit Duka, so you must have understood my words Duka. Now I want to tell you here that there are many types of dates, Arabic dates, Dikki dates, Sindhi dates and apart from that we also call Pind. Apart from that, dates are available in many flavors. If you eat raw dates and if the raw dates are Arabic, then you will feel its taste exactly like honey. And it is said that if you eat raw dates that turn yellow, whose color becomes yellow and the grains start to soften, then such dates are very sweet. But dates are broken raw and different types of dates are prepared from those who are going to make them. Raw dates, apart from that, many colored dates, many flavored dates are prepared in factories, but I should also tell you here that Being prepared in factories does not mean that dates are made by mixing artificial flavors or other artificial ingredients. There is nothing like that, but pure natural dates and raw dates are picked from date palm trees and people bring them to the village in bunches and then they are prepared in big drums and big pots and big pans. But its taste changes in the test and sometimes it is also dried in different colors. In this way, dates are prepared in different ways. But the pictures I am showing you today are raw dates and they are not ripe yet. These raw dates have many benefits of eating and their taste and sweetness are completely unique.
There are very few date palm trees in our village because raising a date palm requires a lot of effort to care for its plant. Apart from this, various animals also damage its fruit. But the soil of our village is also quite harsh and the weather or environment is such that date palm trees are not sustainable here and their production is not that good. But there are some date palm trees in our area that have been planted for many years or grow spontaneously. Just like we eat dates and when we throw away the date palm seeds, date palm trees grow from them. So those trees are there. But the dates that are planted for pure production or to sell them as fruit are not found in our area because it is very important for dates to have regular access to good land. At the same time, dates will bear more fruit unless they are in a good environment or the environment or weather is not conducive for it. So, in our village, there are very few date palm trees and there are no date palm gardens. A few years ago, people in my area planted date palm gardens and brought date palm seedlings or nurseries from other areas, but they were not successful. The only reason for their failure was that the weather was not right and the soil in our area is not suitable for date palm trees. However, there are some varieties of date palm that grow very well in our area and produce fruit, but those dates are not sold in the market. Thus, even good and quality dates do not like the soil in our area.
When people go to the orchard and pick the date fruits, they pick the date fruits in the form of bunches. Dates planted in big bunches are sold in the market, which makes the heart want to eat them. Similarly, you can see in the pictures that I have taken a selfie with bunches of dates. These big bunches of dates are not just bunches, but the dates planted in them. Imagine that honey is dripping from them three times and perhaps it is dripping from them. And these bunches of dates become bunches of honey. And if you want to eat Arabic dates, then the most famous dates in our region are the Arabic and Dhakhi dates. Dhakhi is an area where there are innumerable date gardens and people go from far and wide to see the date gardens. So I too went to Dhakhi once and saw the date gardens and when I saw this there, I I was surprised to see that there were thousands of date palm trees there and hundreds of trees with completely unique and rare dates on them. They were saying that in the coming years they would do more grafting and produce more date varieties. So these date palm bunches are actually honey bunches. If you eat dates in this position, you will understand that you have eaten honey sticks. These are honey-filled grains that we call dates. And the date season has begun and now you will see these date palm bunches everywhere in the market.
Dates are also cultivated in the summer season and at that time the date crop is being harvested and when the date harvest is completed in the summer season then the fresh dates that are required are stored for the winter. So we can say that the dates that are harvested in the summer are then stored for the winter and the dates that are available in the winter are prepared in different types. There are also dry dates and similarly there are soft dates and in many flavors and qualities, dates are available in the market in the winter but the date harvest starts in the month of July and now the middle of the month of July is going on. Now in every market of our village, you will see dried dates in every shop of the village and in this way you will find bunches of dates hanging in front of the shops. So whenever a customer sees them from outside, he will recognize that the dates have arrived fresh and Fresh dates have arrived, so people rush to the shops to eat fresh dates taken from the bunches. This is how I have also eaten dates. I try to write an article every year whenever the date harvest season comes and these dates arrive in our village market. If you look at my articles from previous years, you will see dates hanging on big bunches of dates and there are selfies of me.
You can see the hanging bunches of dates. I have already written above that this is not a date, but you should understand that this is honey hanging and honey is dripping from the date seeds. There are many types of dates, some of which I have mentioned above, but if I tell you in terms of color, there are three types of dates. You will also see red dates, you will also see green dates, you will also see light yellow dates, and some dark yellow dates. The dark yellow dates and red dates are very sweet. If you are a diabetic or you want to eat less sweets, then these dates are very important for your health. This sweetness of dates is now understood as natural sweetness, so it will benefit you and will not harm you. If you have weakness and feel weak, then the red dates and those are more ripe. It should not be too raw. The red dates should be too ripe. If you eat them, you will gain more strength and the weakness in your muscles will also improve. In addition, the weakness of your feminine nature will also improve. So, if you are old and want to make yourself young, then you should eat dried dates, Arabic dates, or red ripe dates. If you eat these, your youth will also return. This is how people also extract date juice. You put dates in milk and grind them in a grinder, and then clean and drink them. This will also prove beneficial for you.
When the date harvest season is at its peak, people also make different traditional foods from dates. In our area, people make date halwa and then apart from date halwa, date panjori is also made and apart from this, dates are used in various dishes and various other foods. Apart from this, the juice of dates is very delicious. We call it date milkshake. Just like banana apple milkshake is made, date milkshake is also made. You have to wash the dates well and then remove the top skin of the dates and you have to put the soft part in milk. It is very important to have one pound of dates in at least one kilo of milk and then you grind it in a grinder and then when you drink this drink, you will benefit a lot. This drink benefits you in both heat and cold. This drink is drunk more in summer because dates are available in abundance and it is cheap. It is fresh, but when it is winter, very few people make it and drink it because the price of dates at that time increases a lot. When the price is high, people do not use it as a milkshake. But if you drink a date milkshake in the summer, the cold inside you will be warmed by the cold weather. In this way, your health will improve and the heat will not reach you, but it will protect you from the cold of winter.
The date palm season must have started in many countries of Asia, where the summer season is there, the date palm harvest will be taking place. In the areas near us, as I told you, there are more orchards in the Dhak area. Apart from this, there are many date palm orchards in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Dera Ismail Khan, Dhak and other areas. There are also many date palm orchards in Sindh and Sindhi dates are also very popular. Apart from this, there are date palm orchards in Punjab where the weather is stable for the date palm crop. It is better to have a lot of date palm orchards there. If you plant date palm orchards, you will also get a lot of income because the yield of a date palm tree is very high. In this way, the dates that are sold in kilograms are weighed and sold in kilograms. In this way, a maximum of two maunds of 80 kilograms and up to 100 kilograms of dates can be obtained from a date palm tree. In this way, these dates Planting date orchards is also a profitable business. Apart from this, the people who plant date orchards do not harvest the crop themselves, but hire contractors who know the art of selling dates and take the dates to the markets to sell. They buy the date orchards or the fruit from the owners of the date orchards on contract, and then those contractors harvest it and then take it to the markets. Thus, the date harvest has reached its peak. In every street, market, and shop of our city, bunches of dates are hanging, dripping with honey. Today, I thought that I should share this beautiful moment with you and also convey this information to you. So, you must tell me in the comments from which country you are reading this article of mine and in what condition are date bunches or raw dates or ripe dates sold in your area. And how do people like to eat it? Thank you very much for reading my article today and liking it.