• Submitted by: Luis Manuel Mazorra
• Business and Economy
• 04 / 03 / 2012

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Beekeeping has been practiced for centuries in Cuba and in recent times looking for honey production entity include the lines that strengthen the economy of the country.
One of the agro-industrial policy guidelines for updating the economic and social model has to do with fostering the production of export funds, including honey.

According to industry officials, have 200 thousand hives and increased value added of their products are strategic objectives in the Cuban bee.

Its gradual development through 2015 expected at that time the collection of more than 10 thousand tons of honey.

The plan of beekeeping in 2011, which was completed, involved the collection of six thousand 600 tons.

In a recent conversation with Prensa Latina, the Minister of Agriculture, Gustavo Rodriguez, said that this is one of the activities that the industry must develop more rapidly in the next three or four years.

There is potential, knowledge, good international prices and is an exportable item that the country knows how to produce well argued.

Is needed for recovery a group of actions, some technical, some stock growth of colonies, as well as motivation in some producers, he added.

A receiving plant honey in the west and development of industry-related elements of the hive, are some of the investments needed for transformations in the field.

These include the areas of infrastructure, benefit, packaging, marketing, etc.

In addition to contributing, through pollination, the natural development of fruit farming, beekeeping is an important background exportable very popular in the domestic and foreign markets.

This activity, which was severely undercapitalized in the difficult years of so-called special period, is currently undergoing a process of rebirth and recovery

The latter is determined also by the need to remove the marks left from the 80's by severe drought, the passage of powerful hurricanes and other adverse weather conditions that affect flowering and decrease yields of the hives.

Morning start at the Conference Center of the III Latin American Beekeepers and the Fourth Cuban Congress on Beekeeping, with the participation of 200 delegates.

Specialists, producers, scientists and marketers of Germany, Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina, Cuba and other nations will meet in both events.

According to organizers, these will serve to update the dialogue started in previous forums, exchange experiences and contribute to the development of the industry in Cuba, the region and other geographic areas.