Brisk sales of local dates at Mahaseel Festival 02 Jan 2021 - 9:23 One of the stalls selling a wide variety of local dates and date products at the fifth Mahaseel Festival. The Peninsula Doha: Local dates are a major crowd-puller at the Mahaseel Festival, organised for the fifth consecutive year by the Cultural Village Foundation (Katara). The stalls selling wide variety of dates grown in Qatar as well as honey have witnessed steady influx of buyers from different nationalities due to the high quality and new varieties of these local products offered by participating local farms and Qatari companies. One of the local companies taking part in the festival is the National Food Manufacturing Company (NAFCO), which sells some of the finest varieties of local dates which have been cleaned, sorted and packed using the latest machines and devices in its factory in Doha.