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29 March 2024

UAE home to biggest-ever fake date

A final endorsement from the Guiness Book of World Records is awaited. (SUPPLIED)

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The annual Liwa Date Festival is home to the world’s largest artificial date, organisers said on Wednesday.

The fruit is 10.5 metres in length, five metres in width and six metres high.

It has received initial approval by authorities at the Guiness Book of World Records, and final approval is awaited.

The fake fruit includes a traditional majlis for 20 people.

Festival authorities decided to go ahead with the enormous replica after the Arabic poet Hamad Bin Sarhan Al Darei put the idea forward.

Manufacturing the fruit has cost Dh2 million and it taken over a year to build.

The festival is being organised by the Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage (Adach).

Sales this year have crossed Dh600,000, authorities said in a statement.

The event runs until Saturday and features a wide range of traditional handicraft demonstrations, with women of different ages displaying their work in a 160-shop souk.