The beekeepers of Las Tunas do not stop in their aspirations to increase the production of honey and its derivatives, despite the intense drought that limits the extraction of food and the rains of the first days of June, which affected 311 beehives, 146 of them in the municipalities of the southern zone.
Las Tunas, Cuba.- This was demonstrated at the Forum of Science and Technology of the Apiculture Enterprise in the province, in which eight investigations were discussed, which were the most relevant in the events held at the municipality level.
Each of the papers discussed demonstrated the potential of beekeepers to overcome difficulties and increase the volumes of coveted food.
Topics such as the production of honey, jelly, and pollen, the production of organic honey, beekeeping health, care for the queen bee, and transhumance served to discuss ideas, concepts, and experiences of daily work.
The director of the human capital of the Cuban Beekeeping Company, Miguel Ángel Alamira Hernández, praised the quality of the Forum at the provincial level, and the quality of the municipal events, with 48 works discussed; of them, the eight that reached the provincial event about topics that will lead to better performance in daily production.
He said that work must be done here to advance the production of organic honey, and highlighted the work developed by the beekeepers of the municipality of Amancio.
The implementation of the SSAN Law (Food Sovereignty, and Food and Nutritional Security Law) for the beekeeping program in Las Tunas was one of the most innovative works. This law defines the local food system as the central axis to achieve food sovereignty and food security with the creation at national, provincial, and municipal levels of sustainable and nutrition-sensitive capacities and strategies; in addition to strengthening autonomy and territorial decentralization.
The Las Tunas Beekeeping Company is working to eliminate the so-called silent zones and take advantage of the natural conditions and the flora of the territory, to reach 2030 with more than 700 tons of the product as the main goal of the entity.
