16 May, Thimphu. His Excellency Hon’ble MoAF Lyonpo awarded food handlers licenses to 42 street food vendors out of more than 200 trained food handlers during last two weeks by Bhutan Agriculture and Food Regulatory Authority(BAFRA), Ministry of Agriculture and Forest to motivate street food vendors to comply with good food hygiene and manufacturing practices.
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14-16 May, Paro. The officials from Deparment of Agriculture (DoA), Department of Forest and Park Services (DoFPS), Department of Livestock (DoL), Department of Agriculture Marketing and Cooperatives (DAMC), Gross National Happiness Commission Secretariat (GNHCS), Bhutan Agriculture and Food Regulatory Authority (BAFRA), National Biodiversity Center (NBC), Information and Communication Services (ICS) and Policy and Planning Division (PPD) under the Ministry of Agriculture and Forest attended the three days RNR CCAP write shop for the development of Climate SMART indictors organized by RNR CCAP Program Coordination Unit of CORRB in Paro.
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6-12 May, Chukha: The southern foothills of the country has been the home territory for different types of local honey bees (Apis cerana) since time immemorial. It is not uncommon to come across the traditional practice of bee keeping in locally designed log hives around the houses. These hives are used to capture the local bees in migration and also for honey production. The age old local hives adjacent to the rural huts and houses conveys the clear message that there is an indispensable bond between the rural populace and the local bees.
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Citrus (mandarin orange as commonly called) and cardamom are two top export cash crops that contribute substantially to Bhutanese GDP. These two commodities featured as the top 9th and 10th export items for Bhutan in the Bhutan Trade Statistics 2012 earning Nu. 452.63 million and Nu. 424.68 million respectively.
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An international course on Environmental Economics began yesterday at the Ugyen Wangchuck Institute for Conservation and Environment. The training is being implemented in partnership between Conservation Strategy Fund and UWICE. It is a five days training and will end on 16th May, 2014.
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