In the Arab region, there is a long history for people to plant dates, more than thousand years. Nowadays, it has been necessary for Arabs, Iranians, Iraqis and Egyptian in daily life, either for food, vintage or business.

Comparing with Chinese dates, date palm has higher nutritional value, and live with many kinds of varieties. Medjool dates, Barhi dates, Piarom dates, Mazafati dates, Rabbi dates, etc. It is really not easy to recognize if you are not familiar with them.

Though different in varieties, they are similar in shape. When customer would like to choose our machine for pitting, cleaning or sorting their dates, the variety can ignore, but whether it is wet or dry should be clear. It influence the quantity we suggest on brushes and air blowers, especially an important factor to judge pitting rate. 

No doubt, dry dates is better for pitting and size sorting, and easy to remove the dust or sand while polishing. As for wet dates, there is a dates washing drying sorting line designed to avoid damage as much possible, which is popular for farmers plant date palm.