Date Festival opted for exporting its production of dates outside the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to contribute to enhancing Saudi exports, where the date sector ranked first globally with a value of SAR 1.215 billion during 2021. Al-Qassim Region annually produces more than 300,000 tons of dates, where farmers seek to break this number with planting more than two million additional palm trees to increase production and contribute to realizing Saudi Vision 2030 through boosting non-oil revenues. Buraidah Date Festival – organized by the branch of the Ministry of Environment, Water and Agriculture in Al-Qassim – is considered the biggest marketing hubs in the region, where more than 1,000 vehicles loaded with tons of dates arrive at the venue and are received by consumers and investors, where plenty of dates are sent to the 15,000-square-meter export yard for packing and export to cities of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and outside to Gulf and Arab countries and the two Americas, Europe and East Asia.
