The rains are beneficial for beekeeping in Yucatán
VALLADOLID, YUCATAN.— The rains that have fallen and will continue to fall in the coming days benefit beekeeping, because the plants known as multiflora would begin to flower soon and the bees will have food necessary to produce enough honey to sell to retail, since it is no longer possible to export due to its high humidity and it is not in demand abroad.
Erika Beutelspacher de la Torre, administrator and owner of the company “Productos Selectos del Sur (Proselsur), dedicated to the export of honey and its derivatives, especially to Germany), recalled that last month the production of honey from the flower officially concluded. from dzidzilché, which was the last flowering that was obtained.
She stated that in terms of honey production was good, it can even be compared with last year’s, but she did not want to give numbers on the amount of honey exported this year, as it is company’s confidential information.
She, however, insisted that they did well this year, despite the drought that prevailed last month, because according to the volume of honey collected it was good.
Now the rains that are falling, and that will surely continue in the coming days, will lead to a good flowering of the plants known as multiflora, among them in tzalán, chacá, it could even bring forward the vines that normally sprout after the month of September.
The nectar in the flowers produces honey with a high level of humidity that will be used to feed the bees themselves, although there is the possibility that some producers want to sell it for their own economic needs, but it will be in half and one liter jars, since it is not requested for export.
In Germany they only accept honey with up to 20 degrees of humidity, but at 21 and 22 degrees they no longer accept it, even the price in the national and local market is low.
The price paid for honey at the end of the season was $28 on average per kilogram, whose prices depend on a series of circumstances in the market, including the US dollar exchange rate, demand abroad, the competition with other exporting countries, among other aspects.
