How sweet: PU holds workshop to set up honeybee farms

Faculty of Life Sciences Dean says workshop would help create more employment and business opportunities for farmers.

LAHORE: Punjab University Department of Zoology’s Honeybee Research Programme organised the 13th National Honeybee Farming and Management Training Workshop on Monday. Master trainers, extension officers, university teachers, progressive farmers and women entrepreneurs from all the four provinces, AJK, Gilgit-Baltistan and various federal and provincial organisations are participating in the event.

Inaugurating the five-day training workshop, Faculty of Life Sciences Dean Dr Muhammad Naeem Khan appreciated the efforts of the Department of Zoology to establish industrial links with the honeybee industry.

Dr Naeem said the workshop would help create more employment and business opportunities for farmers. He added it would also boost rural development and economically empower household women through the training and transfer of modern beekeeping technologies.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 14^th, 2017.