YEREVAN. – Beekeeping is very much developed in Armenia, and Armenian honey is the world’s best, Multi Agro dairy company’s president Roza Tsarukyan told Armenian News.NEWS.am. According to Tsarukyan, who also chairs the Beekeepers’ Union of Armenia, Armenia’s private farms currently have 500 thousand bee families who provide approximately 5,000 tons of honey products.    

In Roza Tsarukyan’s words, even though honey production was very successful this year, honey was not exported, and this is related to receiving a special registration number from Brussels. This notwithstanding, honey sales sharply increased in Armenia. “In the past, I was able to sell a maximum of 3 tons per year, but now even 30 tons is not enough,” Tsarukyan noted.  

Chairwoman of the Beekeepers’ Union of Armenia also informed that Armenian mountain honey is the world’s best because it is received from variegated mountain  flowers, and the more dry the vegetation is, the nectar received from the flowers is that much better quality and has more medicinal properties.

Roza Tsarukyan also stated that Multi Agro sells honey at a price of 3,000 drams ($8 US)/ kg. “Many people ask us why we don’t raise the price of honey, but [Armenian businessman MP and Roza Tsarukyan’s son] Gagik Tsarukyan does not allow that, since the people’s purchasing capacity is not yet high,” Tsarukyan maintained.