Muscat: The 7th edition of Oman’s largest Date Festival will be held from Thursday till October 28 at Oman Convention and Exhibition Centre.
The date festival which will showcase Oman’s agricultural identity is being organised by the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries (MoAF), in collaboration with the Public Authority for Small and Medium Enterprises Development (Riyada). The five-day festival will have participation from farmers, producers and representatives of various manufacturing units with different varieties of dates.
Oman’s dates production is estimated at 361,000 tonnes in 2017 compared to 355,000 tonnes in 2016 and 344,000 tonnes in 2015.
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More than 75 tonnes of dates of different varieties from wilayats will be on display at the exhibition.
