Confirmation of the Award’s high credibility achieved regionally and internationally.

Under the patronage of H.H. Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Presidential Affairs. In the presence of H.E. Sheikh Nahayan Mabarak Al Nahayan, Minister of Tolerance and Coexistence, Chairman of the Khalifa International Award for Date Palm and Agricultural Innovation Board of Trustees, and H.E. Dr. Qu Dongyu, Director General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO Khalifa International Award for Date Palm and Agricultural Innovation virtually signs 4 Memorandum of Understanding, with a number of Arab Ministries of Agriculture, and which aims to strengthening the regional and international cooperation between national institutions and international organizations in order to  contribute to supporting and developing the date palm cultivation, date production and agricultural innovation sectors. Where this came during the Award’s Winners Honoring Ceremony, 2021, in its 13^th session, and which was held on the 16^th of March, 2021.

The Khalifa International Award for Date Palm and Agricultural Innovation General Secretariat, represented by the Award Secretary General, Dr. Abdelouahhab Zaid, signed a memorandum of understanding with Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre (ADNEC), to organize the Abu Dhabi Date Palm Exhibition, 2021, a memorandum of understanding with the Ministry of Agriculture - Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, to organize the Third Jordan International Date Palm Festival, 2021, a memorandum of understanding with the Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources - Republic of Sudan, to organize the Fourth Sudan International Date Palm Festival, 2021, a memorandum of understanding with the Ministry of Rural Development - Islamic Republic of Mauritania, to organize the First Mauritania International Date Palm Festival, 2021.

Signing four memorandum of understanding during the virtual Award’s Winners Honoring Ceremony, 2021, in its 13th session, came to confirm the Award’s high credibility that has been achieved regionally and internationally.