It started Thursday morning, Egyptian Honey Festival activities In its seventh session at the Freedom Park in Zamalek in the West Cairo neighborhood, which runs from November 27 to 30, it was opened by Dr. Ibrahim Saber, Governor of Cairo, Dr. Ahmed Abdel Majeed, Director of the Plant Protection Research Institute at the Ministry of Agriculture, Sasho Podelsnik, Slovenian Ambassador to Cairo, and Mohamed Habib Amin. General of the Arab Beekeepers Union.
Egyptian Honey Festival
During the opening, the Governor of Cairo confirmed that the executive bodies in the governorate provide full support for all initiatives aimed at developing industries and handicrafts, especially in the field of food, to provide food commodities to citizens at low prices and high quality. He also reviewed beekeeping tools and manual and automatic honey packaging methods, in addition to models. For solar-powered beehives.
During the opening, the Governor of Cairo was keen to meet with students from one of the schools who attended the festival on a school awareness trip to learn about the importance of healthy food, the benefits of honey, the importance of beekeeping in creating environmental balance, and how to start a small apiary project. He also met with members of the Ministry of Youth and Sports’ Youth Leading Youth initiative.
The Honey Festival, in its seventh session, is held under the auspices of the Cairo Governorate, the Ministries of Industry, Agriculture, Environment, Investment and Foreign Trade, the Council of Arab Economic Unity, and the Arab Beekeepers Union. 60 exhibitors from various governorates of Egypt and Arab countries participate in the festival.
The festival includes outlets selling honey products and its derivatives, natural oils, dates, and spices. The festival aims to highlight the work of developing the honey industry in Egypt and put it on the right track aimed at making Egyptian honey of its various types one of the most important products that can be expanded in export. It will witness many seminars, including artificial intelligence in beekeeping, and good beekeeping methods to produce quality bees. High, along with competitions.
