Egypt is the first in the world in exports of of live honey bee parcels

Dr. Mohamed Fathallah Abdel Rahman, Head of the Bee Research Department at the Plant Protection Research Institute at the Agricultural Research Center of the Ministry of Agriculture, said in an exclusive statement to “Akhbar Al-Youm Gate” that Egypt ranks first in the world in the export of live honey bee parcels, as more than 1.1 million are exported annually. Expelling honey bees, which represents about 27% of the total parcels that are exported annually from all over the world. He added that Egypt occupies the second place in the Arab world after Algeria in the production of bee honey and the fifth in Africa after “Ethiopia, Tanzania, Angola and Kenya”, where these countries have large areas Vast of pasture plants and forests as a result of the abundance of water and rain in them in light of the limited natural resources in Egypt of agricultural lands and the water needed to cultivate them with the scarcity of rain. Dr. Mohamed Fathallah pointed out that about 3,000 tons of ...