The purpose of the study is to identify production & protection, practices of date palm growers, record perception of date palm growers regards marketing and identify the constraints faced by data palm growers. The current study was carried out in Panjgur district in Balochistan. The data was collected by the questionnaire method. To implement the research plan with the participation of residents, a list of growers had been compiled in each selected village, and 10 interviewees were selected from each village through simple random sampling technology. Growers considered respondents if they had at least 20 date palm trees in their fields. The data is collected and subjected to statistically analysis by using standard method and results are interpreted accordingly. The results of the study showed that the 70% of the respondents had 11-20 years of experience. Most of the defendants had scattered date trees on their farmlands. No intercropping system was found. 97% of the respondents did not know the exact names of the date palm varieties they planted, only a few of them knew. 80% of the respondents know the variety. The vast majority of respondents (62 know irrigation requirements). 87% of the respondents knew about fertilization. 83% of the respondents knew about suction cup transplantation. 95% of the respondents had a certain understanding of diseases and insect pests. About half of the respondents have a suitable market distance of 11-20km, 25.8% and 24.2% had a market distance of 1-10km and 41-50km. Only 0.8% of the respondents had facilities to sell dates at the gate of thefarm.

Keywords: Farmers, Perception, Production, Marketing, Date Palm