Published 20 May,2021 via The Jordan Times AMMAN — World Bee Day, which falls annually on May 20, is celebrated this year virtually under the theme “Bee Engaged: Build Back Better for Bees”, calling for global cooperation to counter major threats posed by the pandemic to food security and agricultural livelihoods.
This year is the fourth observance of World Bee Day, which aims to strengthen the measures for protecting bees and other pollinators, in addition to recognising the dimensions of the pollination crisis.
An annual report released by the Department of Statistics (DoS) on the preliminary findings of the 2020 apiaries survey, showed that the amount of honey produced in the Kingdom increased by 3 per cent in 2020, reaching 326.3 tonnes.
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