Saudi Arabia lifts ban on importing Egyptian bees

CAIRO – 30 March 2022: The ban on importing Egyptian bees in Saudi Arabia has been lifted after a meeting between the directors of the Plant Quarantine in the two countries.

The meeting was held in the framework of the Egyptian-Saudi Joint Committee. On Tuesday, Egypt’s Minister of Agriculture Assayed al-Qasir said the ban was lifted.

Ahmed al-Attar, director of the Egyptian Central Administration of Plant Quarantine, said Egypt is ready to meet all the conditions of the Saudis regarding bees, where his Saudi counterpart praised the Egyptian efforts in improving the conditions of raising bees in Egypt.

Egypt also invited a Saudi technical committee to the country to select and uphold apiaries that apply to export bees to Saudi Arabia.