Montassar Bouaine

Some dates are downgraded and do not have an attractive economic value. Mr Montassar launched an initiative aimed at promoting these varieties of dates and these results were very interesting and encouraging as well on the industrial, economic, social, and particularly on the environmental level.

From his graduation in 2017, he never stopped participating in forums, and training and doing the research necessary to develop products with high quality and save the oasis of his region and help their farmers.

He offers technical support for oasis farmers, makes small agricultural tools and machines available to oasis farmers, works according to the concept of traceability and integrated value chain of oasis products and creates new products with high added value from unexploited natural resources. These products, characteristic by their natural and known geographic origin based on oasis resources, offers a good solution to confront and minimize the effect of pollution for the Gabés region.

Montassar, not only integrated a Moringa culture into the oasis ecosystem, he also succeed in developing the millet plant in the form of Flour valorizing the oasis olive oil as a specific olive oil with excellent chemical and taste characteristics

He also invented a coffee based on date kernels which can be an alternative for traditional coffee since it is naturally decaffeinated, very rich in fiber and minerals and a solution for diabetics since it helps regulate their glycemic rate, a date syrup that can be a natural sweetener for hot and cold drinks and an aroma for our food preparations (yogurt, juice, pancake, …) and a powder of pomegranate peels which is a solution for gastric problems.