In order to reduce honey prices in Israel, while maintaining local production, Israel's Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security is formulating an outline for distributing quotas for the import of honey exempt from customs duties.

The ministry will distribute 580 tons of honey in jars for import, 400 tons of which will be for the Jewish holidays in the fall, through a competitive process. In addition, the ministry will distribute honey quotas in accumulators to marketers in the amount of 2,000 tons of honey, with the marketer committing to sell the honey at an agreed price to retail chains.