A Honey House in İbradı Ürünlü Neighborhood from the Metropolitan Municipality

The Antalya Metropolitan Municipality is establishing a “Honey Bee Hive House” in the Ürünlü Neighborhood of İbradı, which is famous for its local aromatic honeys, with the aim of adding value to and developing beekeeping in the region.

With the efforts of the Agricultural Services Department’s R&D Branch of the Antalya Metropolitan Municipality, the “Honey Bee Hive House” will provide production and training support for ongoing beekeeping activities in the region. For this purpose, a section of the Ürünlü Primary School, which has been allocated to the Antalya Metropolitan Municipality, has been converted into the Hive House. The Hive House, which is in its final preparations, is expected to be operational soon.

It will have a training and exhibition hall

The Hive House will feature a 20-person training room aimed at producers, interested parties, and new producers engaged in beekeeping activities in the region. The trainings will cover topics such as bee products, bee care, bee feeding, the conservation of biodiversity, and their contributions to plant production. There will also be an exhibition hall showcasing the development of beekeeping from the past to the present, various beekeeping materials from different regions, traditional and modern beekeeping techniques, and the anatomical structures of bees. The Honey Bee Hive House Project will not only support beekeeping in the region but will also provide significant contributions to raising public awareness on various issues such as reducing the negative effects of the increasingly felt drought through the training provided, the conservation of ecological balance, and sustainable environment.

It will support production

Inside the Hive House, there will be electronic and manual honey extraction machines where local residents can extract their harvested honey without incurring economic loss. Units for packaging and labeling will also be at the service of producers. In the area where tourist visits are frequent, sales units will be established within the project where locals can sell their filtered and packaged honey and promote various local products.

Ürünlü Neighborhood Muhtar Naci Özkan expressed satisfaction with the Hive House project, stating, “Our primary school, which closed in 1988, has been restored by our Metropolitan Municipality in accordance with its original structure. Various courses will be held at the Hive House, and there will be honey extraction machines for our beekeepers.” Producer Mesut Şanlı, who stated that the Hive House will support ongoing beekeeping activities in the region, said, “After retiring, I returned to my hometown and started again in our ancestral profession of beekeeping. We are extremely pleased with the renovation of our school, which had been idle, for beekeeping activities.”