“DMCC has a coffee center that could be used to process green coffee, and in Gulfood we will suggest bringing coffee here, processing it [at DMCC], adding cardamom [used in Arabic coffee] and selling it to Saudi Arabia, Oman, or Bahrain,” he says. Last November, DMCC chairman Ahmed Sultan Bin Sulayem was in Brazil to present the newly opened cacao center of DMCC to cacao processing plants — including Cacau Show – and farms. In an interview with Terraviva TV channel, he explained that the free zone's processing plants offer industrialization processes that could be used by companies interested in setting up there.“It's an important benefit for startups and companies that are new to the UAE, as they don't need to buy equipment, just use our services, thus saving time and money,” Sulayem said. The free zone opened on 2022 aimed at attracting food commodities from across the globe and exported them, both processed and raw from Dubai to other countries. In addition to the cacao and coffee centers, it also features a tea processing center.