Cubefield Field Level 4

doubled its production of honey propolis against Varroa


http://www.periodico26.cu/noticias_tunas/miel291206.htm
By Hernán Bosch

Las Tunas, Dec 29 (AIN) to obtain 240 tons of honey bees, the Cuban province of Las Tunas beat its target for the year ended and grew to more than double in relation to that registered in the foregoing.

The success is significant for this territory, about 670 km east of Havana, because for 23 years, since 1983, it failed to fulfill the plan in this business.

Rafael Cruz, director of the Establishment of Beekeeping in Las Tunas, told ACN that good attention to the apiaries of the more than 100 producers in the province and the growing number of hives to more than six thousand were factors for achieving progress.

honey bees is an exportable product fetches a high price in world market, it is widely used in pharmaceutical, food and cosmetics, among others.

also attributed many medicinal properties, among these is an energy food that helps you sleep and exerts favorable action on the skin and respiratory tract.

After a marked decline in the collection of honey in the critical years of special period, Cuba was able to obtain annually from 2003 over seven thousand tons of product, and strive to achieve the national record tax in 1983, more than 10 thousand tons

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part of the recovery of the beekeeping industry, the island also increases the production of so-called specific honey, from a single type of flower, like bell and mangroves, high demand for its clarity and freshness.