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The season of sweet honey under the forests of Nghe An

Thanh Phuc • April 28, 2025 11:28

In the scorching early summer sun, beekeepers in Nghe An are busy preparing for the first honey harvest of the year. Sweet honey fills the hives after the flowering season, carrying the scents of longan, pomelo, mango, and acacia blossoms...

ong 1 — From March to June, after the flowering season, beekeepers enter the peak honey harvesting season. Photo: TP

cầu mật — Bees harvest honey twice a year. The first season runs from March to June, and the second from September to December. However, the first harvest is considered to be of the highest quality. The honey, which fills the hives after the peak flowering season, carries the fragrance of longan, pomelo, mango, and acacia blossoms, creating a naturally sweet and rich honey. (Photo: TP)

During the harvest season, on alternating days, members of the Hoang An agricultural cooperative (Quynh Vinh commune, Hoang Mai town) gather at each house to extract honey. The cooperative members raise 500 bee colonies, producing approximately 2,500 liters of honey per year. Photo: TP

Ong cho thu hoạch mỗi năm 2 mùa mật. Mùa đầu tiên từ tháng 3 đến tháng 6, mùa thứ 2 từ tháng 9 đến hết tháng 12. Song mùa mật đầu tiên trong năm được đánh giá là có chất lượng tốt nhất. Ảnh: T.P — The work is clearly divided: some people go to the garden to open the beehives and remove the honeycombs, others cut the caps off the honey tubes, and still others extract the honey. All of this creates a closed-loop harvesting process… Photo: TP

In particular, cutting the honeycomb requires a high degree of precision to carefully remove the thin layer of wax from the honeycomb without letting the bee larvae fall in. Photo: TP

quay li tama — The honeycomb is placed in a rotating machine, and under centrifugal force, the honey is gradually separated – a simple yet effective technique that has been maintained for many years. Photo: TP

tất bật — The honey is filtered, bottled, and supplied to the market. Each year, a beehive yields about 5-6 liters of honey, with a selling price ranging from 360,000 to 400,000 VND per liter. Photo: TP

kiểm tra — At this time of year, the nomadic beekeeping areas under the forest canopy in western Nghe An province are also in the honey harvesting season. The beekeepers carefully inspect each beehive. Photo: TP

With the honeycombs full, the workers collect them and gather them at the honey extraction site. Photo: TP

được mùa — This year, the weather has been favorable, the flowers have bloomed evenly, and the bees are producing honey well. Beekeepers are delighted with the bountiful first harvest of the year. Mr. Van Duc Tuy, a beekeeper under the forest canopy in Quynh Lap commune (Hoang Mai town), said: “400 beehives, with a yield of 3 liters per hive, brought in hundreds of millions of dong in income.” (Photo: TP)

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