The Khalifa International Award for Date Palm and Agricultural Innovation works within its strategic objectives to develop the date palm sector and agricultural innovation at the local and international levels by launching and adopting a number of activities, events and competitions to stimulate all parties of the value chain in the date palm and date palm sector and encourage them to create, innovate, research and excel and spread the spirit of fair competition among them. To advance this sector economically, socially and artistically to a level befitting this intangible cultural and human heritage of the palm tree.

Within this vision and in partnership with the Ministry of Agriculture in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan (MOA) and the Jordan Dates Association (JODA), the General Secretariat of the Khalifa International Award for Date Palms and Agricultural Innovation is working to organize the Fourth International Festival of Jordanian Dates in Amman during the period 18-20 October 2022, in cooperation With the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA), the International Center for Biosaline Agriculture (ICBA), the Arab Organization for Agricultural Development (AOAD), the Arab Center for Studies of Dry Zones and Drylands (ACSAD), the Union of Agricultural Research Institutions in Near East and North Africa (AARINENA), the International Network for the Development of the Palm Cultivation and Date Production Sector in the Middle East and North Africa (IDPGN), and the UAE Palm Friends Society (DPFS). Among its activities, it includes launching a competition for Jordanian dates to encourage farmers to produce the finest types of Jordanian dates, noting that participation is open to all parties of the date value chain at the level of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. This is within the framework of cooperation between the two brotherly countries for this purpose.