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China’s support to Billion Tree Honey Initiative will further sweeten Pak-China friendship

Yang Rong, Chairman of China Bee Products Association (CBPA) termed the Billion Tree Honey Initiative launched by PM Imran Khan a workable project to alleviate poverty and boost Pak-China cooperation in this sector. He said that Pakistan has a lot of natural and human resources which make it a perfect spot to harvest honey. Explaining the Chinese experience, he said, a lot of areas have been pulled out of poverty, and the same can be replicated in Pakistan.

BEIJING, Dec 26 (APP): Billion Tree Honey Initiative launched by Prime Minister Imran Khan this Monday will be an available and workable project to alleviate poverty and develop the bee products sector as it will lead to broad prospects of Pak-China cooperation in this field, said Yang Rong, Chairman of China Bee Products Association (CBPA).

 

Rich natural and human resources have equipped Pakistan favorable conditions to develop the bee products industry.

 

Most of Pakistan’s land is subtropical, which provides a warm climate for vegetating nectariferous plants.

 

Meanwhile, mature agriculture and diverse fruit plantation also lay a foundation for industrial development, Yang analyzed.

 

He said, the development of the bee products sector, a typical labor-intensive industry will effectively alleviate local poverty in Pakistan.

 

Actually, this method has made fruitful achievements in China, China Economic Net (CEN) reported on Saturday.

A lot of Chinese local governments have chosen developing apiculture since 2013 and successfully solved poverty even led the regions to prosperity.

 

Considering the problems of employment and rural revitalization, the mature experiences of China are also suitable for Pakistan.

 

The apiculture in Pakistan is facing the challenges of pest and obsolete technology which can be solved under Pak-China cooperation.

 

Bee mite has been reckoned as one of the biggest menaces of Pakistani agriculture. Pakistan tried to import bees and develop apiculture 17 times, but all of those attempts failed due to bee mite.

 

Yang said, “Nowadays, through scientific breeding, drug treatment, and the most advanced physical treatment, Chinese beekeepers have controlled it very well and at a world leading level.

 

We can share all of those techniques with Pakistan to improve its apiculture.”

“Under CPEC agriculture cooperation, we’d love to share other experiences and techniques with our iron brother as well, such as scale development of apiculture, vegetating nectariferous plants, scientific payoffs, bee species breeding and so on,” he added.

 

China, as the largest bee products producer and consumer in the world, has a full range of mature solutions to develop apiculture.

 

Pakistan can import from China techniques and production modes, meanwhile export bee products to the Chinese market where bee products including honey, bee milk, bee wax, and especially propolis are in great demands.

 

“It will stimulate the Pakistani economy, create jobs, and also alleviate local poverty,” he said and added, “CBPA will do its best to promote Pak-China cooperation in apiculture and support Pakistani bee products industry.”

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