'Witnessing' how Nghe An farmers raise bees and harvest honey
(Baonghean.vn) - Beekeeping is not too hard but requires a lot of knowledge and skill. The stages of larval culture, tray removal, and honey extraction all have many complicated requirements.
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| Quynh Hoa Commune (Quynh Luu) has a semi-mountainous terrain with many fruit orchards, suitable for developing honey bee colonies. |
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| Honey harvesting must be based on the food area (flowering season). To determine the harvest time, beekeepers need to check regularly to know when the honey is full. |
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| When removing the tray from the beehive, the beekeeper must be skillful and quick. |
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| Beekeepers must use smoke to chase away bees when harvesting honey. Mr. Bui Ngoc An, a successful beekeeper in Quynh Hoa (Quynh Luu) said: "Depending on the season, each area has different types of trees and flowers with different pollination seasons. Therefore, beekeepers can harvest honey all year round." |
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| The amount of honey varies from nest to nest. |
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| After being removed from the hive, the honey tray will be put into a rotating drum to extract the honey. The centrifuge makes the honey flow out of the beeswax without affecting the quality and clarity of the honey. |
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| In addition to raising bees for honey, Quynh Luu farmers also grow bee larvae to get royal jelly. Young bee larvae are grown in the hive, and worker bees will secrete a special milk to feed the larvae. After 3 days of being raised, the bee larvae will develop into young bees, which eat the milk that has been pumped in by worker bees beforehand. Therefore, after exactly 3 days, the milk must be harvested, otherwise the young bees will eat all the milk. |
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| Breeds and techniques determine the success of beekeeping, especially in the production of royal jelly. In the photo is the process of extracting royal jelly from the bee hive. |