Amreli: Union Home Minister Amit Shah will dedicate the largest honey plant in the country and an ice-cream plant in a function to be held at Amar dairy near Amreli on 11th September in Gujarat. PM Narendra Modi had performed the groundbreaking of the honey plant and the ice cream plant in 2017. IFFCO chairman Dilip Sanghani informed while addressing a press conference that Union Home Minister Amit Shah will visit Amreli on 11th September. He will attend a program to be organized at Amar dai...Read More

Surendranagar: Kamleshbhai Patel, a farmer from Halvad in Morbi, makes an annual turnover of around Rs 15 lakh by selling organic honey generated by him through beekeeping. A team from Japan recently visited Halvad to shoot a documentary film about his work. Kamleshbhai Patel arranged 140 brood boxes in his farm. Around 30 thousand honey bees live in each brood box. The honey bees of 3 types namely king, queen and worker live in each brood box. He is able to generate 3 to 4 thousand kgs of h...Read More

Gandhinagar: Banaskantha and Surendranagar districts of Gujarat found mention in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Mann Ki Baat radio address this morning. The Prime Minister while speaking about Banaskantha, said he had made appeal for sweet revolution in Banakantha in one function in year 2016, in response to which the district has today emerged as a leading centre for honey production, resulting into additional income for local farmers. The Prime Minister also mentioned Zinzuwada vi...Read More

Anand: Union Agriculture minister Narendra Singh Tomar today inaugurated NDDB's hi-tech honey testing laboratory and beekeeping training programme for dairy farmers at National Dairy Development Board (NDDB), Anand. The new honey testing facility has come up as part of NDDB's multi-disciplinary laboratory -CALF. This is the only accredited laboratory in the country which can test honey sample as per FSSAI’s latest regulation of 1st July 2020 (as on date) by undertaking authenticity testing...Read More