‘Israeli dates are sought even by Arab countries’

Date collect deteriorate kicked off this weekend during Kibbutz Eilot in a south and will continue for dual months.

Dates are one of Israel’s many essential rural exports, and in new years, according to a Yediot Ahronot report, dates, along with avocados and mangoes, have taken a place of citrus fruits and peppers, that used to be a stars of a uncover in Israeli rural furnish abroad. Today, Israel reserve about 60% of a tellurian marketplace for medjool dates, that are deliberate a top peculiarity dates and are many in demand.

Doron Geva, Kibbutz Eilot’s business manager, told Yediot that “around 140 employees will attend in this year’s harvest, of that 40 are in a kibbutz’s wrapping department, that recently purchased a worldly classification machine, that photographs any date from 18 opposite angles. The collect itself is carried out manually with a assistance of cranes 20 meters (65 feet) high.”

In a past 3 years, a cost of Israeli dates rose from $7,500 to $10,000 a ton, according to Yediot, that means that date growers are receiving an normal of NIS 20-23 ($5-6) a kilogram, with a best dates being means to produce NIS 37 ($10) per kg. to growers. By comparison, Israeli farmers accept between NIS 1–3 ($.28 -.85) per kg. for vegetables such as cucumbers and tomatoes.

Ofri Dimentman, who is obliged for a date dialect of a Mehadrin trade association told Yediot that medjool dates are exported to some 30 countries, many particularly Turkey. Israeli dates are even sought in Arab countries, to that they are sole by a third-party broker.