The Al-Ahsa Manufactured Dates Marketing Festival (Oh, the sweetest dates 2023), which is organized by Al-Ahsa Municipality in cooperation with its partners at the Municipality’s heritage castle, receives successive visits by tourist delegations from countries around the world, who were keen to be present at the festival and register their admiration for the diversity, high quality and competitiveness it offers in the manufacturing and marketing of dates and their products. Transformational
Ancamo Duvan (a tourist from the Republic of Romania) said that for the first time she was visiting Al-Ahsa and she was happy with her visit to the festival and what she saw of the diversity of activities and the excellence of the date tent, which includes many manufacturing industries. She added that she prefers to eat “hand-hoarded” pressed dates, expressing her admiration for the multiplicity of varieties of dates. The statistics are of high quality, the likes of which have not been seen in other cities of the Kingdom that they previously visited.
While Rick, who is interested in the tourism aspect and who comes from Taiwan, pointed out that Al-Ahsa is distinguished by date products and manufacturing industries that have a unique taste and quality, indicating that he is keen to return again to the festival with another tourist delegation.
While the festival witnessed the interaction of the audience with the poetry evening (coffee session) with the participation of the poets “Dr. Abdullah Ali Al-Khudair, Dr. Abdullah Muhammad Al-Mulla, and the poet Tahani Hassan Al-Sabeeh,” where the poets expressed creativity in their poems about Al-Ahsa, palm trees, dates, the agricultural profession, the founding day, and poems. Poetics in other works.
“Al-Ahsaa date molasses” is characterized by its light yellow color, thickness, and a datey, not acidic, smell. This is what was mentioned by the specialist in molasses production, Muhammad bin Qouti, who added that the extraction of molasses in the past was done after painstakingly by placing the dates in presses, or what is called “kandawg,” for a whole year. So that the dates are stacked on top of each other, and the molasses comes out from the bottom, and at the top, the required amount of dates is supplied. However, now, with the developments that our country is experiencing, with the abundance of specialized factories, large quantities of molasses are produced, and Abdullah Al-Mudhaffar and Abdul Rahim Al-Abdul Latif, “date merchants,” agree, adding that molasses is a type of molasses. Khalas comes in first place in demand, and most of its uses are in the holy month of Ramadan. It is also used by adding it to some foods as a substitute for sugar, as well as other additions to some popular Ahsa dishes, for example (porridge, crumbs, and luqaimat), and also every household has its own way of using it.
In addition, visual artists “Hassan Al-Sari and Ali Fardan” from the sister Kingdom of Bahrain participated in live drawing in front of visitors at the Abeer Al-Ahsa Fine Arts Exhibition, expressing their great happiness with this participation in the festival, which contributed to the transfer of experiences, the development of young talents for Gulf artists, and the encouragement of participation in the production of inspired artistic paintings. Of the nature, heritage and environment of the region.
While the exhibition held an artistic drawing workshop entitled (Easy Steps to Drawing a Palm Tree) in the children’s tent, presented by the artist Muhammad Al-Quraynis, who explained that choosing the palm tree in this workshop is an important element that represents the identity of Al-Ahsa and contributes to developing artistic skills through drawing with colors and stimulating the child’s skill side, and this The initiative is in cooperation with King Faisal University.
In the corner of the Inmaa Association for Community Services, the visitor learns about the goals of this specialized civil association, which are focused on (raising the level of awareness among the community to maintain public facilities, supporting positive initiatives to develop neighborhoods, contributing to providing public services to neighborhoods and meeting establishment standards, developing neighborhoods and supporting them with public services, Proposing programs and projects necessary for the development of the local community), and through its corner, the association developed a plan to distribute 500 tree seedlings within the Green Saudi Initiative.