The Ministry of Municipality and Environment is gearing up to organise Local Dates Exhibition tomorrow at Souq Waqif, Exhibition will continue till October 22 from 10am to 9pm, reported The Peninsula.
More than 40 local farms as well as some local companies will participate in the exhibition.
In order to promote local production of fruit, the Ministry had earlier launched “palm trees in homes competition” at the Third Local Dates Festival which took place in July this year. The Festival had also been organised at Souq Waqif.
Qatar is attempting to accomplish 100 percent independence in dates in couple of years. The Ministry said that the aggregate number of farms registered in the State of Qatar is 1,310, of which 916 are dynamic ranches, the majority of them develop palm trees and deliver diverse kinds of dates.
With the end goal to advance nearby generation of natural product, the Ministry had prior propelled "palm trees in homes rivalry" at the Third Local Dates Festival which occurred in July this year. The Festival had likewise been sorted out at Souq Waqif.
A years ago, in order to encourage people to plant the palm tree seedlings on their own, the Ministry of Municipality and Environment offered seedlings to people at low prices. Each native was permitted to buy most extreme five seedlings.
The farmers are currently producing fruit varieties that were not present in Qatar. The focus now is on delivering the most requested dates like Khalas dates.
The kinds of dates that were imported in from Saudi Arabia in high costs are presently delivered locally and are accessible in the market at reasonable price.
The Agriculture Affairs Department at the service is quick to offer help for the development of dates locally through spreading mindfulness and utilizing present day innovations that will contribute of expanding and building up the nature of dates.
The aggregate developed territory of palm trees is around 2,350 hectares, and the aggregate generation of dates is around 30,000 tons for every year.
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