Tissue Culture Center
Oman Agriculture Development Company operates a state-of-the-art Tissue Culture Laboratory in Jimah, developed in partnership with the University of Arizona, USA. The facility supports Oman’s food security by producing strategic crops through advanced propagation techniques. Current production includes 160,000 date palm offshoots of various varieties and 150,000 banana plantlets, along with other crops such as potato tubers, strawberries, thyme, and pineapple. In addition, the center is developing gene banks to safeguard high-quality genetic material for date palms, citrus fruits, figs, grapes, and other important crops.