The president of the Associació d’Apicultors d’Ibiza, Vicent Marà Torres, has asked the Consell to draw up a study for the creation of what he has dubbed the ‘honey house’ in one of the empty rooms of the extensive barracks of Sa Coma which is now dismantled. Marà considers that this center could house several beekeeping facilities, for example for the elaboration of honey, for the analysis of the product and for the training of beekeepers. He even proposes that a visitors’ center be located there. The petition was registered in the electronic headquarters of the insular institution on May 27th.
Marà details in the request a dozen activities that, in his opinion, could be carried out in that facility. For example, the creation of a department of extraction and maturation of honey, melting and lamination of wax and packaging and labeling: “Currently,” says the president of the Ibizan beekeepers, “all producers lack a place to perform this extraction and maturation, as well as the lamination of the wax and packaging and subsequent labeling of products derived from bees with all the rigor and health guarantees for the consumer”.
He also believes that the center could house “a laboratory ” dedicated to analysis and quality control, “which could be made compatible with the rest of the primary sector, the CIFP of Can Marines, Agroeivissa and agricultural cooperatives” of Sant Antoni and Santa Eulà ria, specifically to create “a seed bank”.
Ibiza Honey visitors center and training department
He considers it very important that the center to be built in Sa Coma also has a training department, which the association offers several times a year to dozens of students in facilities outside its headquarters because it is not spacious enough.
The proposal includes setting up a commercial promotion department to advise and promote the sector, and another for the protection of the protected designation of origin (PDO) of Ibiza honey, as well as a bee health office.
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