AGARTALA, April 26 (TIWN): Forest minister Naresh Jamatia on Tuesday inaugurated the fresher’s training program on bee keeping at jail ashram road organised in association with department of horticulture and soil conservation. It is to be mentioned here that the honey processing centres, which has been set up by Tripura Khadi and Village Industries Board, is playing a vital role in making honey.

Addressing the program the dignitaries at the program said Tripura is fast emerging as a honey producing destination. It also generates employment for many. The honey processing unit was established in 2015 by Khadi and Village Industries Board. The unit is now equipped with latest processing machineries to improve the quality of the product.

Recently, Minister of State for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) Giriraj Singh visited the honey processing unit and announced support to natural products.

The government is laying stress on training more farmers to start bee-keeping to increase the honey production

The process includes collecting honey from the bee keepers and processing. There are around 400 bee keepers. After processing the honey marketing is also done for the product, said Minister Jamatia.

"Here we maintain the quality of the honey. There is huge demand of honey but the number of bee keepers is less as compared to the demand. Therefore, Khadi Board is trying to increase the number of bee keepers by organizing various training programmes and gradually it is increasing," said Forest Minister Naresh Jamatia.