Southern Region Of Eritrea Hits Gold Mine

<h4>Southern Region of Eritrea Hits Gold Mine<&sol;h4>&NewLine;<p>OpenLife Nigeria reports that the southern region of Eritrea has hit gold mine in bee farming&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;According to information&comma; commendable bee farming activity has been registered in the Southern Region in the past years of Independence&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr&period; Habte Tekeste&comma; head of poultry and bee farming development in the region&comma; indicated that before independence the number of bee farmers in the region that was limited and functioning with traditional way has currently&comma; with strong intervention of the Ministry of Agriculture&comma; has reached to 7 thousand 677 including 708 females&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr&period; Habte further noted that training program has been organized to a number of bee farmers and 18 thousand 205 modern bee hives with accessories have been distributed to farmers and that they are producing yearly 245 tones of honey&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Indicating that in the past year due to imbalance of demand and supply the price of one kilo honey has been 500 Nakfa&comma; Mr&period; Habte said that currently the price has been reduced by over 50&percnt;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr&period; Habte also called on the bee farmers to strengthen organization and follow the advice being provided by experts from the Ministry of Agriculture with a view to boost their production&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Eritrea is a northeast African country on the Red Sea coast&period; It shares borders with Ethiopia&comma; Sudan and Djibouti&period; The capital city&comma; Asmara&comma; is known for its Italian colonial buildings&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>It is bordered by Ethiopia in the south&comma; Sudan in the west&comma; and Djibouti in the southeast&comma; has an extensive coastline along the Red Sea&period; It could be the busiest shipping lanes&comma; with the controlling access to the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Eritrea is now a member of the African Union&period; The Eritrean government previously withdrew its representative to the African Union to protest the AU’s alleged lack of leadership in facilitating the implementation of a binding border decision demarcating the border between Eritrea and Ethiopia&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>There was 30-year war between Ethiopia and Eritrean&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;It was an independence struggle which led to a deadly rivalry that led to the outbreak of hostilities from May 1998 to June 2000 which claimed approximately 70&comma;000 lives from both sides&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;A peace treaty between both nations was signed on 8 July 2018&comma; formally ending the conflict with Ethiopia&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Source&colon; Ministry of Information&comma; Eritrea<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;