Unique bank open in Oman

The Sultanate of Oman has witnessed a distinguished and remarkable step in the maintaining and upgrading of its agricultural wealth with the opening of a new and unique bank whose dealings and transactions do not require cash or cheques. This bank deals in information.

This bank, with the aim of preserving the world-renowned Omani dates, maintains a precise record of the origins and species of each type of date and palm tree throughout the Sultanate.

The bank files now include data on about 167 types of dates out of 200 species in Oman.

Through this bank it is possible to plant any type of dates at any time and conduct studies to find solutions to the problems confronting date growing in the Sultanate.