Palm Tree Festival enhances Bahrain’s historical agricultural identity: Shaikha Maram | THE DAILY TRIBUNE | KINGDOM OF BAHRAIN

Palm Tree Festival enhances Bahrain’s historical agricultural identity: Shaikha Maram | THE DAILY TRIBUNE | KINGDOM OF BAHRAIN

The Secretary-General of the National Initiative for Agricultural Development (NIAD) Shaikha Maram bint Isa Al Khalifa, inaugurated the third edition of the cultural and heritage festival “Khairat Al Nakhla” (Palm Tree Bounties). Bahrain Development Bank CEO Dalal Al Qais and Assistant Undersecretary of Agriculture and Marine Resources Dr. Abdulaziz Mohammed Abdulkarim attending the opening of the festival organized by NIAD in cooperation with the Farmers Market Department of the Bahrain Development Bank Group and the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Agriculture. The festival aims to encourage and support local production of all palm products to preserve the agricultural identity. It will run until July 30 at the permanent Bahraini farmers market in Hawrat A’ali, with the participation of many farmers, agricultural companies, artisans and productive families. Shaikha Maram stressed, during the opening, "the great importance of the Palm Tree Festival, which in its third edition has proven its growing significance as an important aspect of Bahrain’s heritage and how closely connected it is to Bahrain's agricultural identity rooted in the depths of history." "NIAD is keen to organize this festival on an ongoing basis because it contributes to the consolidation and preservation of the historical status of the palm trees