Peshawar : The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor, Engineer Shaukatullah while appreciating a demand for establishment of a beekeeping training school and aquality control laboratory to authenticate quality of bee products has assured the Bee Keepers and Traders Association to take every possible step to help them in getting their grievances resolved.
Talking to a big delegation of bee keepers and exporters who called on him under the leadership of Sheikh Gul Badshah and Faisal Elahi at Governor’s House here on Tuesday, the Governor said, “more than forty schemes to encourage bee keeping and bee production are under implementation at a cost of Rs 55 million in FATA.”
Almost 2500 workers, he added, have already been got trained and provided bee keeping boxes and kits to run their self owned businesses. “We will appreciate support and cooperation of the Bee Keepers and Exporters Association in our efforts to promote economic activities and generateemployment opportunities for youth of FATA and are ready to take more concrete steps in line with their suggestions,” the Governor said.
The Governor took keen interest in the suggestion to authenticate quality of bee products and assured the delegates to contact the respective authorities to materialize if within shortest possible time.
Referring to another demand the Governor also assured to significantly contribute in preservation of forests and growing relevant trees and bushes which are suitable to promote bee keeping both in the province and FATA.
Meanwhile, Gul Badshah and Faisal Elahi while talking on behalf of the delegates also apprised the Governor about the handicaps which they have been facing in application of medicines fortreatment of workers.
