220 tons estimates of honey production in Hama for the current season

Hama-Sana

The Directorate of Agricultural Protection of the Governorate of the governorate of honey production for the current season estimated at 220 tons, amid indications that there will be a noticeable increase in production this year due to the expansion of bee pastures throughout the governorate and the increase in the number of cells that exceeded 44 thousand cells.

A number of beekeepers described in their conversation to the SANA correspondent the weather condition and the atmosphere accompanying the fall of rain this year, on the very occasion of the bee-grazing season. Of the lands with natural flowering herbs that bees feed on during this period, as well as mountain flowers, thorns and trees adjacent to the bees revived the hopes of breeders to increase production and improve its quality and exempt it from the suffering of feeding expensive bees, adding that the average cell production for the current season is better than previous years and the amount exceeded 5 kg per cell.

Engineer Fayez Hindawi, head of the bees division in the Hama Agriculture Directorate said that recent years have witnessed a clear increase in the demand for ready-made beehives purchase by citizens or farmers after entering new areas of production this year, especially in the northern and southern areas of Hama, pointing out that the number of breeders is increasing. Continuing, it reached 2300 educators, and the number of cells exceeded 44 thousand cells.

And Hindawi said that the division plays an ongoing advisory role for beekeepers with the aim of providing them with the necessary instructions to develop the reality of their work and facing the difficulties that face them, as well as providing them with veterinary medicines that combat bee enemies, especially parasites and diseases that affect cells, working to provide bee queens and new cells for breeders, and holding seminars Guidance in the various regions of the governorate by specialists and training courses to increase the expertise of the breeders.

Hindawi called the beekeepers during the harvest and harvest season to avoid unjust picking and leave one or two plates to feed the bees within the hive and fill the honey with glass containers and to store it in dry places away from moisture and not to do the pasteurization of the honey, because of which it loses many of its health and nutritional benefits.

Suhad Hassan