Pal Gardens Agriculture Company, one of the Sinokrot Holding companies, welcomed 40 journalists from various Arab and foreign nationalities at the company’s headquarters in Al-Auja / Jericho, and the delegation was headed by Dr. Saeb Erekat, head of the negotiations unit in the Palestinian Authority, accompanied by the Governor of Jericho and The Valley, Jihad Abu Al-Asal, and the head of the Jericho Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Professor Tayseer Al-Hamidi, on Monday morning, November 4, 2019.
The delegation was received by the director of Pal Gardens Company, Mo’men Mazen Sinokrot, who in turn valued this visit, which comes within the framework of identifying the Palestinian investments in the Jordan Valley, expressing the challenges and obstacles that the Palestinian investor faces in the region from the difficulty of obtaining water and the suffering of the Palestinian product because of the obstacles imposed by the Israeli occupation on exports.
From his side, Dr. Saeb Erekat spoke about the challenges that Palestinian companies face in the Jordan Valley, saying that “94% of the water and 91.5% of the Palestinian lands are seized by Israel,” explaining that many Palestinian facilities are being demolished as the Israeli side seeks to inflict great losses on the Palestinians and destroy the economy Palestinian.
Erekat added that all this would weaken the share of the Palestinian product in the world in exchange for the products of the illegal settlements that enjoy many privileges at the expense of Palestinian investors.
The delegation was accompanied by a tour inside the company’s factory to get acquainted with the production, packaging, and export lines, and to clarify the production processes and stages that Palestinian date products go through.
It is worth noting that Pal Gardens Agriculture Company is one of the Sinokrot Holding company, which was established in 2007, specializes in cultivating, packaging, marketing, and exporting Palestinian Medjool dates to more than 20 countries around the world with high international quality specifications.