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El Bierzo honey, a luxury on the rise

One of the most prestigious honeys Due to its price and quality, it is produced in our country, specifically in the Leon town of camponaraya, where they could not be more proud. Because the honey from El Bierzo It is a gastronomic delicatessen for the most demanding palates with one of the great natural products. There, bees are part of an environment from which they are born the most expensive honey in Europe and the second highest priced in the world. Therefore, the demand is brutal for a Bierzo Beekeeping Cooperative that does not stop growing. He is already looking to the future with the opening of a new center. Find out more here.

How much does El Bierzo honey cost?

Its production is limited and therefore, not all consumers who want to taste the honey from El Bierzo They can satisfy your gastronomic cravings. To get so lonely A kilogram of this exquisite delicacy in quality, the bees need to collect nectar from up to a million flowers. Normally, for that amount, about seven thousand kilometers total. An outrage like the price that has this product considered luxury and with its rising value. Also due to the existing environmental conflict of the insect population that makes its creation possible. So that, a kilo costs 150 euros.

To supply the high demand, the Bierzo Beekeeping Cooperative has had until cancel your last orders received because they have already covered their requests until 2020. Even this year they have skyrocketed even more for the achievement of the Halal seal, a distinctive that allows them to open up to the Arab market. All of this reveals how prestigious the honey from El Bierzo, "The second most expensive worldwide", according to Javier Moran, general secretary of the cooperative. On November 12, this Spanish product will travel to Sweden. It will be to be presented to the public at the International Ecological Fair, since honey has this characteristic.

All that quality reflected in its high price allows the cooperative to continue growing and thus, by the end of the next year has in mind to open a laboratory on honeys. It will be located in the same Leonese town of make up and it will be the second center of its kind at the national level. The mayor Township, Eduardo Moran, advanced this news in a press conference. "We want to help maintain the quality of honey and offer other types of activities for the sector," he specified. And it is that, the honey from El Bierzo It is not just any and León wants to get bigger in the agri-food world.

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