TZOB: Turkey exports only 6 per thousand of the honey it produces

Honey

Turkiye

Published Sep 14, 2021

Tridge summary

Şemsi Bayraktar, Chairman of the Union of Chambers of Agriculture of Turkey (TZOB), stated that the successive disasters this year caused a decrease in the contribution of honey to the economy and a decrease in yield, and said, “Our beekeepers had a very bad time this year due to natural disasters and fires. It is necessary to meet the demands of our producers in order to ensure that they can get out of this situation with the least damage and look to the future with hope.”

Original content

Şemsi Bayraktar, Chairman of TZOB, made a statement on beekeeping. Stating that beekeeping, which is an activity that supports rural income in our country, also has a complementary effect on activities related to agriculture and forestry, Bayraktar said, “Our country has a very rich vegetation for beekeeping. Our country is a very important gene center because 6 subspecies of 27 known honey bees are found in Anatolia. Turkey is a country where beekeeping production activities can be carried out for 9 months. Bayraktar shared the information that “According to the World Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) data, 1 million 721 thousand 288 tons of honey has been produced in the world”, Bayraktar said, “China takes the first place in production and 25 percent of the world production. is carrying out its Our country is following this country with a rate of 6.4 percent” and continued his explanation as follows: “In 2020, 2.1 billion dollars of honey export was made in the world. ...

Source: Gidatarim