A new agricultural plan to boost farming
United Arab Emirates
Thursday 02 May 2002
The Ministry of Agriculture has set up a plan to boost farming in the United Arab Emirates and, notably, to increase the number of date palm trees plantations. The production of dates has shifted from 30 000 tons in 1977 to 536 000 tons in 1999 : indeed, the UAE are the third global producers. But if quantity is high, quality is unequal and 70% of the volumes are lost or else processed.