Egypt: Exporting more than 10,000 honey bee packages to Saudi Arabia

The Minister of Agriculture and Land Reclamation praised the efforts made by the General Authority for Veterinary Services in cooperation with the Agricultural Research Center and the Central Administration of Foreign Agricultural Relations to meet the requests and requirements of the Saudi side through quarantine procedures and control work on the honey bee production system and the resumption of export to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Al-Qusair said that 11 shipments with a total number of 10,456 honey bee parcels have been exported since the decision to lift the ban and resume the export of Egyptian honey bees to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, where the exported packages are examined by the Plant Protection Research Institute, and that there are no African or Asian hybrid bees in Egypt. or European. Pointing out that Egyptian apiaries are subject to periodic inspection and application of production requirements, and only apiaries free of diseases and pests stipulated by the World ...