August 16, 2020 –Socotra Online
Reporting and Photography: Ibrahim Youssef –Ahmed Jamaan
Yesterday, Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan Foundation launched the receipt of the dates from the farmers for the third successive year in the Socotra Archipelago. After the receipt of the dates, the Foundation would commence the operations of cleaning and wrapping in an integrated factory including all modern equipment to wrap the dates. The factory was recently established by the Foundation.
During the first day, the factory received five tons of dates, and receiving was still going. In addition, the factory welcomed anyone who would wish to wrap his own dates for nominal prices to encourage the people of the Socotra Online to follow the modern methods in relation with preservation of dates and help the people in marketing their products.
The dates wrapping operation would contribute to encourage the farmers to concern with the palms, and utilizing the product properly.
The dates factory, which was established by Khalifa Foundation, would be the first of kind, and would be considered very important as the Island had large farms in different areas.
