The contest for ‘Best Date Fruit’ is this unique festival’s primary attraction, with farmers contesting for the title of ‘Best Date Grower.’
Visitors can sample the myriad, popular varieties of dates at the festival. The contest for ‘Best Date Fruit’ is this unique festival’s primary attraction, with farmers contesting for the title of ‘Best Date Grower.’ There are also date auctions, where the fruit can sell for over AED 6,000 (INR 1,30,000) a kilo; lectures on date farming; poetry evenings; and an exhibition space for farming equipment and date products. This year, the unique festival was held from July 16 to July 24, and prizes worth AED 8 million (INR 18 crores) were distributed to winning farmers.