The financial study for the project # (AR 20-48) indicated that
the total cost needed to freeze one kilogram of fresh dates
accounted to 1.43, 0.91, 0.80 USD using IQF, and around
1.70, 1.20, and 1.10 USD using CF, for annual production
rates of 1000, 3000, and 5000 tons of frozen dates, respectively.
The economic study concluded that the highest annual production
rate (5000 tons) using the IQF system is the best economic
alternative, taking into account that date fruits frozen using
CF method were of higher quality compared to those frozen
via IQF method as shown by the above results