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One kilogram of lavender honey is sold for 300 TL…
Market price of lavender honey, which is believed to be good for many diseases, especially for liver fatty, is increased by 50 liras to 300 liras compared to last year because of high demand.
Isparta, Turkey’s rose garden, as well as announcing its name with lavender production, has begun to produce 1. 250 tons of flowers per year from lavender production in the villages of Kuyucak, Kuşçular, Aydoğmuş, Çukurören and Ardıçlı in Keçiborlu district.
Lavender, which has come to the fore with its visual beauty and its contribution to rural tourism, so has attracted the attention of honey producers.
Beekeepers, bringing their hives close to the lavender gardens from different regions, benefit the lavender’s 40-day flowering through the essence of flowers. The honey producers, which extract their lavender honey from the hives during the harvest period of the lavender fields, send them to boutique shopping centers in metropolitan cities such as Istanbul, Ankara and Izmir. Lavender honey, sold at 250 lira last year, is offered for sale at 300 liras this year due to the intense demand.
