Al Foah Date Palm production farm (Farm) has a total area of 1,300 ha of commercial date palm plantations.  Farming is organic and aimed at producing high quality date palms products and bi-products for export to European markets.

The development of the Farm faced numerous challenges particularly water supplies.  Overall a large volume of water is required on a daily basis to supply production operations.  Consultancy services to Al Foah involved the following tasks:

1.      Calculation of actual water requirements per month starting from planting date and until maturity and beyond when maximum water requirements are consumed.

2.      Investigation of water availability scenarios: this task involves asserting the quantities that can be obtained from each of the supply sources and identifying possible reductions or constraints that may occur either from limitations of the existing infrastructure, seasonal water supply variations, or from any requirements upstream Al Foah farm taking priority over Al Foah supply. 

3.      Designing the optimal irrigation system infrastructure for the full farm.  This involved designing a system operating at a capacity of 2,500 m³/hour.

4.      Preparation of cost budget including detailed breakdown of costs.

5.      Synthesis of optimal development plan taking into account the following issues:

a.       Water requirements

b.      Water availability

c.       Optimized design

d.      Execution time

e.       Project management timeline

6.    Development of Water Management Plan