The Ministry of Municipality and Environment (MME), represented by the Agricultural Affairs Department, distributed 100 rooms to Qatari farms for drying dates, in order to meet the needs of the farms and develop solutions to the most prominent challenges. Head of the Department of Agricultural Guidance and Services at the Department of Agricultural Affairs Ahmed al-Yafei said that the distribution of the rooms to farms is carried out within a distribution plan that depends on the conditions and criteria of the farms, which is that the farm is active and marketed for dates.
He explained that the distribution of rooms for drying dates to farms is part of the projects of the Agricultural Affairs Department to support and develop agricultural production with the aim of preserving dates from waste, and reducing the amount of damaged dates on farms, which is estimated annually at about 15,000 tons.
The drying process is one of the most important stages after the date harvest due to its direct impact on reducing waste and crop damage.
There are two methods for drying dates: the traditional or natural method by placing dates under direct sunlight, or by drying using drying rooms, which is one of the most recent methods used in drying dates, as it saves time and effort and helps in the quality of dates production, by adopting speed and quality, especially since the drying time of dates is much less than the traditional method, ranging between two and five days depending on the varieties.
The Ministry of Municipality and Environment is organising a number of extension fields for farmers to educate them and guide them on how to use the date drying rooms and the mechanism of their use in order to reduce waste and to ensure the quality of Qatari dates. (QNA)
The drying process is one of the most important stages after the date harvest due to its direct impact on reducing waste and crop damage.
There are two methods for drying dates: the traditional or natural method by placing dates under direct sunlight, or by drying using drying rooms, which is one of the most recent methods used in drying dates, as it saves time and effort and helps in the quality of dates production, by adopting speed and quality, especially since the drying time of dates is much less than the traditional method, ranging between two and five days depending on the varieties.
The Ministry of Municipality and Environment is organising a number of extension fields for farmers to educate them and guide them on how to use the date drying rooms and the mechanism of their use in order to reduce waste and to ensure the quality of Qatari dates. (QNA)