Turkey: 50 tons of honey harvested in Tosya

Bekir Özipek, President of Tosya Farmers' Property Protection Association, told reporters that bee products are produced in approximately 7 thousand hives, of which 5,600 are registered, throughout the district. Stating that Tosya is among the regions with rich floral flora required to produce organic and natural quality honey, Özipek continued as follows: "Beekeepers can register with the Beekeeping Registration System (AKS). There are also many citizens around us who do not want to register with AKS and do this as a hobby. In Tosya, especially in recent years, a large number of our citizens have started beekeeping. "Honey is not produced. In addition to royal jelly, pollen and propolis, our beekeepers also produce many income-generating products such as beeswax, bee, queen bee. The producers in our district harvested around 50 tons of honey this year." Özipek noted that 3 tons of beeswax, 900 kilograms of pollen and 2.5 kilograms of royal jelly were produced throughout the ...