Within the framework of Bee Day, the president of the organization, Carlos Aguirre Aguilar, made a call to value the importance of this pollinator for humanity, to take care of it and preserve it, since they are currently threatened by deforestation, burning, and climate change. Frank Sosa Candila, vice president of the Yucatan Gastronomic Federation, who is a beekeeper, highlighted that bees provide high-quality foods such as honey, royal jelly, and pollen, they make cosmetics, medicines, candles, and other products such as beeswax, propolis, and bee venom. Both business leaders stressed that Yucatan honey meets the quality requirements established internationally, hence Portugal’s interest in acquiring this product.
They indicated that during the tour of businessmen and chefs of the federation through Europe, negotiations were opened, through the Mexican Embassy in Portugal, with businessmen and the government of that country for the export of Yucatecan honey. “It is expected that between July and August, the Portuguese ambassador to Mexico will arrive in Yucatan and subsequently a delegation of businessmen on a trade mission, to learn more about the state and see what other business options can be carried out,” highlighted the business leader. On the tour of Europe, he said, they took ingredients that are used in Yucatecan cuisine, as well as honey and other products that managed to conquer the palates of Europeans.
They sparked interest in acquiring them for consump.
