Georgia’s new scientific base help revive rare bee species
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A scientific beekeeping base has been opened in Mukhuri village of Georgia’s Samegrelo region where large-scale studies of Georgian bees will be started.
The base will help the restoration and popularisation of Caucasian grey bee species. For the future it is planned to restore Guruli (region in Georgia) and other bees of the local population.
This is an unique gene pool which was almost disappearing but the Ministry of Agriculture managed to restore it. Now it is important to implement these methods which will help to reproduce more and more bees of rare species and also reproduce new species as well,” said Georgian Minister of Agriculture Levan Davitashvili, who attended the base’s opening ceremony today.
New scientific beekeeping base has been opened in Mukhuri village of Georgia’s Samegrelo region. Photo by Georgia's Ministry of Agriculture.
The Mukhuri scientific beekeeping base will host different open-doors days, seminars and other events that will contribute to raising awareness of beekeeping among Georgian farmers.
The Government of Georgia has launched a new state program to support beekeepers boost production.
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Honey is fast becoming a desired agriculture product in countries throughout the European Union (EU), and Georgia is about to get on this bandwagon.
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