The Buraidah Date Festival, organized by the Ministry of Environment, Water and Agricultures branch in Qassim, runs until August 25

The Buraidah Date Festival continues, with local farmers and date sellers eager to showcase the produce of more than 11 million palm trees. The event, organised by the Qassim department of the Ministry of Environment, Water, and Agriculture, runs till August 25. The carnival's goal is to introduce date farmers to current agricultural practises and to enable the sharing of knowledge on creative methods to produce the highest-quality dates.

More than 4,000 seasonal work possibilities have been created as a result of the festival, representing one of the most significant goals of the Kingdom's promotional and tourism carnivals, which is to localise and generate jobs for Saudis. According to Festival CEO Khaled Al-Nuqidan, the funfair provides work possibilities through committees, overseeing teams, points of sale, retail stores, farms, date squares and export arenas.

Monitoring, statistics, surveillance, organisation, information, and relations committees are some of the other employment functions. There are also delivery professions and investment services in palm farms run by the national workforce. There are additional outlets of sale both inside and outside the region, as well as packing and exporting, as well as productive families engaged in date production. Farmers from the region are taking part, and various displays showing government organisations, manufacturing sectors, and industrious families are taking place in conjunction with the funfair.

Saudi Arabia's date exports reached 321,000 tonnes in 2022, valued at SR1.28 billion ($341 million), according to the Ministry of Environment, Water, and Agriculture. According to the government, the Kingdom's annual output of dates in 2022 will top 1.6 million tonnes, with over 300 types available.

Saudi Arabia has around 34 million date palm trees, which are dispersed throughout the Kingdom. The Qassim area has the most palm trees, with 11.2 million in total, followed by Madinah with 8.3 million and Riyadh with 7.7 million. There are 4.1 million palm trees in the Eastern area.