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Sweet honey season under the forests of Nghe An

Thanh Phuc • April 28, 2025 11:28

In the scorching heat of early summer, beekeepers in Nghe An are busy entering the first honey harvesting season of the year. The honeycombs are filled with sweet honey after the blooming season, carrying the scent of longan, grapefruit, mango, acacia flowers...

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

cầu mật — Bees harvest honey twice a year. The first season is from March to June, the second season is from September to December. However, the first honey season of the year is considered to have the best quality. Sweet honey fills the hive after the blooming season, carrying the scent of longan, grapefruit, mango, acacia flowers... creating a sweet, naturally rich honey quality. Photo: TP

During the harvest season, members of the Hoang An agricultural cooperative (Quynh Vinh commune, Hoang Mai town) gather on alternate days to go to each house to extract honey. The members of the cooperative raise 500 bee colonies, producing about 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: One person goes to the garden to open the hive, remove the honey bridge, one person cuts the honey tube cap, one person spins the honey. All of this creates a closed harvesting process… Photo: TP

Cutting the honeycomb requires extreme precision to remove the thin layer of wax from the honeycomb without letting the bee larvae fall in. Photo: TP

quay li tama — The bile bridge is put into a spinning machine, under centrifugal force, the bile is gradually separated - a simple but effective technique that has been maintained for many years. Photo: TP

tất bật — The honey is filtered and bottled to supply the market. Each year, a beehive produces about 5-6 liters of honey, with prices ranging from 360,000 to 400,000 VND/liter. Photo: TP

kiểm tra — At this time, the nomadic beekeeping areas under the forest canopy in Western Nghe An are also in the honey extraction season. Workers carefully check each beehive. Photo: TP

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

được mùa — This year, the weather is favorable, flowers bloom evenly, bees make good honey, beekeepers are happy with a good first bee crop 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/hive, bring in hundreds of millions of dong in income." Photo: TP

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