Suwaid al-Maliki, head of the Plant Research Section, alongside several palm farm owners, engineers, agricultural advisors from farms and private companies, and date farmers were present.
Engineer Amer Fayyad al-Kehais, from the Agricultural Research Department, gave an explanation of the most important pre-harvest, harvest, and post-harvest practices. He reviewed all the stages that have been studied on drying methods from 2006 until now, and how the drying process has evolved to the use of drying rooms covered with a polycarbonate material.
He further discussed the development of drying rooms, starting from the regular drying room and the multi-purpose drying room (which can be used as a nursery for vegetable crops), to the advanced drying room (with increased capacity for drying dates), and finally to the mobile solar dryer powered by solar energy (clean energy). The event included a field visit to the drying rooms to observe the different rooms and the mobile dryer.
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