A special honey from Chania

“False dittany honey” could become another special product of Chania, like the PDO “Pine-thyme honey of Crete”, it was claimed at a seminar which took place on 2nd July in the conference centre of the Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Chania (MAICH). The event presented the results of a programme aimed at identifying and promoting the special characteristics of honey produced from the plant Ballota pseudodictamnus, or false dittany, which is found mainly in Western Crete.

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