Mexico will host the International Date Palm Festival

2000Agro/Writing Mexico, by second consecutive year, it will host the International Festival of Palma Datilera, which will be held in Baja California and Sonora, to publicize the quality of the date, the fruit of this palm that offers important benefits economic and social benefits to the arid zones of the country, farmers and families of the rural sector. By attending the signing ceremony of the memorandum of cooperation at the Embassy of the United Arab Emirates with the Khalifa International Prize Foundation of the Date Palm and Agricultural Innovation, the head of the Secretariat of Agriculture and Rural Development (Sader), Víctor Villalobos Arámbula, highlighted that It is a fruit that unites the Arab countries with Mexico. He stressed that it is a distinction to have a crop, native to the Middle East region and North Africa, which develops in extreme conditions and practically null availability of water, but which transforms the limited resources into a excellent food that ...