From Picking To Packing, Women Do It All In Saudi's First All-Female Dates Production Factory

Al-Ahsa is home to nearly three million palm trees spread across 30,000 acres and a region that produces more than 100,000 tonnes of dates every year. A number of national factories, in cooperation with a number of charitable societies, were able to provide jobs for women who received the necessary training and qualification in the field of manufacturing.

This factory distributes dates to a large group of countries. The factory employs 100 Saudi women who take care of all the work in it - from management, accounts, quality control, and packaging, to health and nutrition. They also drive the cranes inside the factory, that handle the transfer of boxes of dates from one place to another until the final stage of the product.