To implement training programs for beekeepers and families in need

Bugshan cooperation between the chair and the Ministry of Agriculture


 The island - Riyadh
By Dr. Ahmed Khazem supervisor on a chair, Mr. Abdullah Bugshan Research Bees, King Saud University and president of the beekeepers cooperative expressed satisfaction with the recommendations of the first national meeting of the beekeepers in the Kingdom. The Khazem that the recommendations included a recommendation to the Ministry of Agriculture, allowing the importation of bees housing and quality control of packages and queens imported and expediting the issuance of the regulation on the application of the system beekeeping approved by the Shura Council and the recommendation of the Fund of Agricultural Development to reconsider the allocation of part of the loans of the cells of modern and just leave space for beekeepers in the selection of the type and means of transport cells depending on the circumstances that moved into the areas. And the need for coordination between the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Trade to protect the honey, the national prevention of dumping of honey importer in the seasons of production as well as the importance of coordination between the Ministry of Agriculture, King Saud University, represented by a chair, Mr. Abdullah Bugshan Research bees to develop and implement training programs for the training of beekeepers and families in need, especially young people. And the need to intensify awareness-raising and media outreach programs for producers and consumers. And coordination with the General Authority for Wildlife Reserves select summer and winter bees in different regions of the Kingdom and rangeland protection suppress the damage. And study the issue of compensation when beekeepers lost cells due to pesticide spraying campaigns and coordination with the Ministry of Health on the organization of campaigns against insects of public health. The recommendation of the Ministry of Agriculture to coordinate with the Ministry of Labour to give beekeepers the freedom to choose the nationality of employment up kits. And study the local strain of bees and plants for reproduction and the work controls to import bees from abroad, as well as the recommendation of the development institutions carrying out studies of the load in the pastoral areas frequented by beekeepers.
Source: Al-Jazera