A sweet cause to dance with bees

Source: Tianshan Network

On September 18, at the beekeeping base in The East Village of Beidi, Mangding Township, Jinghe County, Li Ke was cutting honey. Photo by Sai Yongjie

【Young people in our village】

Song Yawen

In the past few days, the bee farm in the East Village of Beidi in Mangding Township, Jinghe County, has ushered in harvest time. On September 26th, as soon as you walk into the beekeeping garden, the rich honey smell comes to your nose, rows of beehives are placed on the grass full of wildflowers, and swarms of bees are busy in the mountain pass... When the reporter saw Li Ke, he was wearing a protective shield and collecting honey in the bee farm where the swarm of bees flew. Shake bees, cut honey, shake honey, sift, fill... After a series of complicated processes, nutritious and delicious pure natural honey was born.

In Jinghe County, the honey source plants in autumn are mainly wolfberry flowers and some mountain flowers, honey quality is good, golden color, fragrant taste, rich nutrition, with the effect of moisturizing the lungs and nourishing the face and detoxification. "A flowering period can harvest honey 5 times, can harvest more than 500 kilograms at a time, and can earn more than 100,000 yuan a year." While calculating the "sweet account", Li Ke carefully opened the lid of the hive and pulled out a hive board sharply.

Li Ke, a 38-year-old villager in The East Village of Beidi in Mangding Township, has been keeping bees since 1998 and has been keeping bees for 23 years now.

"Beekeeping is not easy and very hard. Despite my failures, I love this business and hope to do it well. Li Ke said that because he did not understand the honey picking habits of bees at the beginning, he placed a large number of beehives next to the farmland, and the bee colony naturally went to the farmland to collect honey. However, he was devastated by the mass death of bees due to the spraying of pesticides on some crops.

The bitter lesson did not make Li Ke give up, but made him more sober-minded. "After figuring out the reason, I immediately decided to take the hive to the woods of the East Village of The Northland, where the natural conditions are superior, the plants grow well, and the honey collection of bees will not be affected by the outside world." Rick said.

In this way, in addition to eating and sleeping, Li Ke worked in the bee garden for the rest of the day. After continuous learning and practice, his beekeeping technology is getting better and better, and the scale of beekeeping has expanded from the original more than 10 boxes to the current 180 boxes year by year.

In order to broaden sales channels, Li Ke set his sights on e-commerce and began to learn online sales. "We have opened an online sales channel to let more people see my honey through the Internet." Li Ke said that when he was free, he would take out his mobile phone to take pictures and show the whole process of honey production on the Internet with pictures, videos and other methods. Due to the trust of customers, more and more repeat customers, Li Ke's sweet career is also getting bigger and bigger.

Seeing the benefits brought by Li Ke's beekeeping, the villagers came to "learn from the scriptures". To this end, Li Ke also specially compiled a well-illustrated, easy-to-understand beekeeping technology textbook, and passed on the experience he had summarized over the years to everyone without reservation.

"I will continue to expand the scale of bee farming and bring willing villagers to raise bees together." At the same time, it is necessary to smooth the network sales channels, seize the business opportunities of live broadcasting with goods, make the beekeeping business bigger, and lead the villagers to get rich together! Li Ke said confidently.

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