http://www.english.hadhramaut.info Hadhramaut and Almahra gets two projcts- honey and date palm [The Source: hadhramaut.info - 13/05/2009] The Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation and the International Center for economical  Insect Physiology  of the United Nations today in Sanaa, the drafted agreemtn  was on honey production amd planting of date palm  in the provinces of Hadramaut and Mahara cost 500 thousand dollars in funding from the Islamic Development Bank  According to the agreement, the Center is to provide honey  cells to communities to solve the honey producers,  affected last year  by the disastrous floods year  The Ministryalso signed   another agreement with the Arab Center for Studies of Arid Zones and Dry Lands (ACSAD) of the League of Arab States to the Convention on the implementation of a project to replant palm trees in the provinces of Hadhramaut and Al- Mahara at a  cost 500 thousand dollars  funded from the Islamic Development Bank The agreement guaranteed that the center will provide date palm varities suitable for the environment in the province. The Undersecretary of the Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation sector development of agricultural production engineer Abdulmalik Al-thour indicated to the  Yemen News Agency (SABA),  that the signing of the agreements is part of the financial grant provided by the Islamic Development Bank to Yemen, the amount of one  million dollars to finance the production of honey and of palm dtes  implantation in the provinces of Hadramout and Al-mahra conting  500 thousand dollars each project, is scheduled to begin  implementation in June this year, for a period of one year. He pointed to the importance of the two projects comes within the Ministry's strategy for the development and the  productivity  of the agricultural sector in Yemen as well as  to strengthen its role in achieving food security