UAE: Al Dhaid Dates Festival Kicks off Featuring 50+ Exhibitors
The third Al Dhaid Dates Festival kicked off at the Al Dhaid Expo Centre in Sharjah. Over 50 exhibitors, including national date producers, retail traders, and farmers, are participating in the festival, organised by the Sharjah Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI).
Attendees explored the festival showrooms and met with exhibitors to learn about the date varieties on display. They also inspected the productive family booths and their many cultural and traditional industries and product offerings.
The first day’s events witnessed a large turnout of farmers and palm farm owners from Sharjah and other Emirates to participate in the festival’s competitions and auctions, including the Al Heseel Date Contest and the Luxury Dates Contest. The exhibition booths welcomed thousands of visitors who came to peruse displays showcasing the finest date varieties and purchase multifunctional palm frond products, according to Emirates News Agency (WAM).
Abdulaziz Mohammed Shattaf, SCCI Assistant Director-General of the Communication and Business Sector, highlighted the festival’s role in preserving the deep-rooted cultural and heritage legacies of generations of Emiratis, supporting palm farm owners, advancing palm cultivation and date production practises, and reaping the optimal fruits the industry has to offer. It accomplishes all this by providing farm owners with all the resources they need to facilitate more efficient farming, production, and marketing, offering a platform for exchanging expertise and experiences, and showcasing the top approved technologies and practises in palm cultivation and date production.
Mohammad Musabah Al Tunaiji, the festival’s general coordinator, noted that the Al Dhaid Dates Festival has witnessed persistent successes year after year, with an increased turnout this year of participants coming to exhibit their farms’ choicest fruits and compete in the competitions organised by the Chamber to boost the status of palm trees and encourage their cultivation and care.
The exhibition showrooms also witnessed a high turnout of productive families whose distinctive participation is displayed through their extensive offerings of palm-based handicrafts and traditional crafts.
