Beekeeping sector has great potential to generate employment opportunities: President.

ISLAMABAD -- President Dr Arif Alvi on Monday underlined the need for strengthening and facilitating the beekeeping sector of the country as it has great potential to generate employment opportunities and earn foreign exchange.

He urged the need for improving the environmental conditions for beekeeping to increase the honey yield.

The President made these remarks while chairing a meeting on Ten Billion Tree Tsunami Programme (TBTTP) here at Aiwan-e-Sadr.

The meeting was attended by Special Assistant to PM (SAPM) on Climate Change Malik Amin Aslam, Vice Chancellor of University of Arid Agriculture and senior officials of the Government of Pakistan.

Malik Amin Aslam briefed the meeting about the initiatives taken by his Ministry under TBTTP and informed that TBTTP would greatly contribute to increasing the production of honey as well as improving environmental conditions of the country.

He highlighted the steps taken for improving the...