[Chungsan News Reporter Joong-woong Jeon] The National Institute of Forest Science (Director Yong-kwan Kim) under the Korea Forest Service has announced a plan to actively support the expansion of nectar-producing plants policy of the Korea Forest Service by discovering 24 excellent nectar-producing plants that can support the beekeeping industry, which is facing difficulties due to forest fires, and also improve the health of forests. Due to climate change and aging, the area of acacia trees, which were previously planted for forest greening, has been gradually decreasing, causing significant difficulties for the beekeeping industry. To address this issue, the National Institute of Forest Science focused on discovering nectar-producing plants with better honey production than acacia trees and with diverse flowering periods. After comprehensively analyzing the number of flowers per tree, the amount of flower nectar, growth characteristics, and other factors to estimate the potential honey production, it was found that chestnut trees and jujube trees can produce 7 to 10 times more honey than acacia trees. In particular, newly discovered plants such as Zelkova serrata, Kalopanax septemlobus, and Parrotia subaequalis also produce more than five times the amount of honey per hectare compared to acacia trees. Meanwhile, the Nectar Plant Resources Research Team of the National Institute of Forest Science is actively promoting the revision of the 'Forest Resources Creation and Management Act' to swiftly apply the basis for designating 'nectar plant specialized complexes' on the ground, which was passed on March 31.