Billion Tree Project: Honey production rises by 70%

[Old School]

Has anyone tried the honey from GB region ? How to get it ?

 

[xyxmt]

We do not even have a honey industry sadly. This is so easy. Good step. But honey, apple, peach, plum, apricot should be given a mango like statues. Where we produce and package world class mangoes with world class techniques and export it all over the world. We must now focus on developing the same industry for peach, plum, apricot, and apple. Just because these are grown in the west and their owners are not parliamentarians doesn't mean we should not focus on them.

there isn't enough cultivation area for these as it is for Mango and their production is hardly enough for local consumption.

 

[Salman876]

And this honey will solve all problems of Pakistan

 

[maverick1977]

honey reduces the mucus which blocks the respiratory passage and result in death of patient,it also increase immunity so it can help patient indirectly in surviving disease

Coronavirus obstructs redblood cell from attaching oxygen molecule and taking them to cell..similarly, it doesnt let co2 to be attached to redblood cell to extract them out of body.. causes thrombosis of organs and in severe cases death.. another aspect is that icauses blood to thickens leading to cloting .. most of young people die of clots

 

[xuxu1457]

I never knew before today.

 

[Pakistansdefender]

there isn't enough cultivation area for these as it is for Mango and their production is hardly enough for local consumption.

Who told you that friend? We have enough land and temperatures zones for the fruits mentioned. Need only technology and commerical verities to increase yeild. And to offer incentives to local people to plant farms.

 

[American Pakistani]

Yes, doctors are using whatever they have to try to deal with the Covid-19 virus. But I haven't heard a single doctor recommend honey to cure or lessen the virus. So it's a bit rash to suggest using it to cure a virus when it won't do much. But I do recommend eating one spoon of pure honey every morning. I usually take it with my tea.

You do know honey boost immune system?

ratehr declare all gov land forest.
atleast wont be encroached

Yes that's good too. But it's also good to have trees in the cities which will reduce pollution.

 

[Baghial]

Billion Tree Project: Honey production rises by 70%
By Asif Mehmood
Published: April 20, 2020
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PHOTO: AFP

LAHORE: The production of honey has increased by 70% due to the plantation of thousands of trees under the Billion Tree Project in the Changa Manga artificial forest.

The beehives were auctioned in 2016 for Rs729,000, but now the amount has increased to Rs1.3 million. Forest Department’s officials said complete implementation of Prime Minister Imran Khan’s Billion Tree Project can lead to increasing the amount received from the auction of honey in Changa Manga to Rs10 million.

Forest Officer Shahid Tabassum said 85% of the forest had been planted in the past few years, due to which there had been an unusual increase in bees.
“Hundreds of beehives can be seen in the Changa Manga forest,” he said. “In the financial year 2016-17, the honey was auctioned for Rs729,000 and in 2017-18 for Rs1.15 million,” he added. Similarly, in 2018-19, the honey was auctioned for Rs1.252 million, while during the current financial year the auction fetched Rs1.3 million.

Local people of Changa Manga said that along with the use of pesticides and fertilisers in crops, trees had been brutally cut down from forests, agricultural areas and along canals and roads, due to which honeybees were finding less places to make hives, while flowers were also not available.

The flowers from which the bees get nectar also became toxic because of the pesticides and fertilisers, due to which the bees died. Hence the production of natural honey was declining and people were forced to buy the processed varieties. Dozens of people are seen selling fake honey with wrong labels at Changa Manga nowadays.

Forest Officer Tabassum said that four types of bees are found in Pakistan, named Domna, Pahari, small and European. Domna, Pahari and small are local bees, while the European species (Apis Mellifera) was brought from Australia.

“The best is European bee because it produces more honey than others,” he said. He added that there are a large number of bees in other forests in the province.

The official maintained that the bees also make hives on the trees planted at canal banks. However, in most places, local people remove the hives. Abdul Rahman, a young man who collects honey from the beehives, said they also provide wax which is sold. He added that a teaspoon of honey contains nectar from about 5,000 flowers.

“A honeybee flies 3.5 million times and travels 50 thousand kilometers to make half a kilogramme of honey,” he said. He added that honeybees lay 15,000 eggs a day and 2.5 million in one season. Honeybees remember the flower scents while moving around and return with its help after accumulating honey in their stomachs, he said.

Experts say that about 400 tonnes of honey is imported annually to Pakistan, which is only two per cent of the total demand.

Most of the need for honey is fulfilled from local production. Wild honey is rare, while farm honey is found frequently.

In addition to honey and wax, green pollen, royal jelly, a compound called propolis and bee stings are also obtained from the hives. They are used in different fields.

The propolis is sold at Rs1,000 per kilogramme, wax Rs1,100, pollen Rs2,000 and royal jelly for up to Rs30,000 per kg.

Published in The Express Tribune, April 20th, 2020.


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did pti, plant bees?
idiotic threaad.

trees that attract most honey bees.

• Crabapple
• 
  Cherry (with the exception of sweet cherry, which is prohibited in the Portland area)
• Pear
• Almond
• Apricot
• Plum—European and Japanese
• Fig
• Peach
• Pears—Asian and European
• Walnut
• Chestnut
• Filbert..

DID PTI, PLANT ANY FRUIT TREES,
NO?
SO..............

The best is European bee?????????????
RIGHT FCCK

Yemeni Sidr Honey is the best in world.
nothing ever came close to it.

 

[khail007]

In my knowledge, in Pakistan there are usually three kinds/flavour of honey:
Mustard/سرسوں - Low priced
Acasia/کیکر - High priced
Berri/کھانے والے بیر - High priced

In production season of above mentioned plants/trees/crops, People use to take their colonies in the areas of heigh yields that also positively affect the pollination of those trees/crops for enhanced yields.
Even if you doesn't have fruit trees it does not mean that honey production could not be increased.
The affect is that in high yield of specific fruit area where you keep your colonies for honey production will have the dominant flavour of that fruit.

 

[jamal18]

It's good for treating my tummy!

 

[ali_raza]

You do know honey boost immune system?


Yes that's good too. But it's also good to have trees in the cities which will reduce pollution.

that includes cities too government has alote of land in cities which in encroached already

 

[American Pakistani]

that includes cities too government has alote of land in cities which in encroached already

Can you point out where in Saddar or Tariq Road area in Karachi is govt land which can be converted into forests?

 

[ali_raza]

Can you point out where in Saddar or Tariq Road area in Karachi is govt land which can be converted into forests?

buddy the country isn’t just sadar.
u point out one tree in time square nyc
karachi all of it south west east is empty lagalo trees mangrove grow ker lo.
some areas r high commercial let them be

 

[GumNaam]

Honey from the trees in mountainous areas are always in high demand.

 

[American Pakistani]

buddy the country isn’t just sadar.
u point out one tree in time square nyc
karachi all of it south west east is empty lagalo trees mangrove grow ker lo.
some areas r high commercial let them be

You wanted govt to grow forests in govt lands in the city when I suggested that govt should have people to grow at least 2 trees per house.

Now you realize that "forests" are not possible in cities. And people can grow and take care of fewer trees they plant. Plus it can help reduce pollution.