Thaddo Dam Forest ready to produce honey, silk

City Nazim Mustafa Kamal told The Nation, that city government is focusing to change the environment of Karachi city, and working to change the forest not only for picnic purposes but also produce revenue through production of honey, silk and some other productions .he said.

He said that since the establishment of the Jungle at Thaddo Dam, the Siberian birds started to come here which would help in the beautification of the spot.  

He said that CDGK, is also planting thousands of trees on all main roads of the city including Karachi University Road, M. A. Jinnah Road, Shahrah-e-Faisal, Shahrah-e-Pakistan, and various other parts of the city to change the look of the city .

The sources in the Forest department said that one of the project to produce Honey is ready for implementing at Thaddo Dam’s forest as around 6 thousand wild Beri trees have been planted in the forest months back and they are rapidly grooming and Forest department would bring bee here from September set up honey boxes to prepare pure and precious honey through natural purposes, sources said.

The DO Forest department Saeed Ahmed Peerani, told the Nation that the forest department had planted such varieties of the tree which produce maximum flowers so that bee to be attracted on those trees sipping the juices of the flower and produce pure honey through natural procedure as complete study has been carried out in this regard.

The honey of wild (Beri) is unique and precious and Forest department has planted around 6 thousands trees in the Gadap town for this purposes, and Bee, its boxes and frames which to be used in the honey production are being set up here and the honey production would be started by the end of September, Mr Peerani said.