The First International Festival of Jordanian Dates 2018 is under the patronage of His Highness King Abdullah II, the king of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and His Highness Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Presidential Affairs in the United Arab Emirates, and attended by a number of Arab Ministers, members of the Arab and international diplomatic corps residing in the Kingdom, commercial attachés in Jordan, representatives of international companies specialized in palm cultivation, date production, designing and processing the equipment and tools of grading and packing of dates, and experts and traders of dates around the world, along with Jordanian experts who were refined by the Jordanian experience in cultivating and producing the Medjool dates in a non-traditional style.