Zuo Facheng, a farmer in Sihou Village, Chaigang Township, Fugou County, and his wife have been persisting in their beekeeping business for 50 years, not only have a deep affection for tens of thousands of little bees, but also achieve hard work and prosperity through their hard work, and life is getting sweeter and sweeter.
A few days ago, the reporter saw that in the corner of the wall outside the Zhiting Temple in Chaigang Township, boxes of beehives were neatly placed, and the hard-working little bees were flying around, busy brewing sweetness.
Villager Zuo Xinhe said: "This old comrade Zuo has been beekeeping for more than 50 years, and he followed his father when he was about to graduate from junior high school, and has been engaged in beekeeping since he got married. ”
For more than 50 years, Zuo Facheng and his wife have accompanied bees like a family member. Wake up every morning to check the hive and observe the queen bee giving birth. In winter, the bees are semi-hibernating, so make sure that the temperature of the hive is suitable for the bees to survive, that the hive is intact, and that enough honey is kept for the bees to eat. At the beginning of spring every year, the bees who are still huddling together to warm up do not feel the temperature rise outside, so manual intervention is required to feed the bees some pollen every night to stimulate the vitality of the bees.
Beekeeper Zuo Facheng said: "In the past few years, when I was young, I often went to the south, and in winter I went to the south like Sichuan, Guangxi, Hunan, and Hubei to pick rape flowers, and returned in spring. After the end of rape flowers to March, at the end of March, we will return to Henan to pick, like this tung flower, acacia flower, at the end of March and early April have entered the flowering period, picking tung flowers, acacia flowers. As soon as this tung flower and acacia flower are over, now, this bee has been picked, on the Jixi Expressway in the east of us, the purple locust on the slope, and the pollen also has honey, picking the purple locust flower, and now the flower is picked. In the past, I had to go to the mountains at this time, like Jiyuan and Shanxi, to pick the second batch of acacia flowers. Like me now, I am going to pick this purple locust to pollinate people's watermelons, vegetable sheds, and watermelons. ”
"Flower chaser" is a poetic term given to beekeepers. It is said that the bee walks with the flowers, the people accompany the bees, leaving their hometowns, sleeping in the open and releasing bees, which is a day that every beekeeper must go through, and the hardships are far from being imagined, but in the dictionary of life in Zuo Facheng, there is no fear, there is no retreat, and some are just perseverance, diligence and integrity. This is a critical period for watermelon pollination and fruit set, and according to growers, bee pollination is far better than manual pollination.
Zhang Hangbo, a watermelon grower, said: "Our traditional flower and fruit are generally like this, so that it can be done well, and it is very slow, requiring a large amount of labor." If we use this bee now, after it has been picked by this bee, we will pick it on top of it, and then this melon will be right. The bee is more even, it generally does not have deformed fruits, and the artificial manual is not good and then it is easy to appear that deformity, and it can't sell the finished fruit when it grows up. In this way, if it is like the finished fruit of this way, round and slippery, it should be made of bees are better. ”
Zuo Facheng opened the beehive and pulled out a bee frame, which was densely crawled with bees. There is only one queen bee in each bee frame, and every winter, the queen bee is working hard to lay eggs and reproduce a new generation of bees.
Beekeeper Zuo Facheng said: "Generally speaking, this bee is managed in four seasons, and its technical content is still quite complicated and troublesome. Four seasons management, each stage of the management methods are different, bees are a very industrious thing, so as a beekeeper, you must also have this advantage, you must be diligent, all links, very detailed details, you must do a good job. Another bee has a limited lifespan, it is long and short according to the flowering season, it can live for a few months in winter, and it can live for a winter, so the management in winter is different from the management in summer and spring. In the spring, the bees go out to pick this, and the various flowering periods are more busy, and the management of the bees is carried out for production, and the various products of the bees, such as pollen, royal jelly, and honey, can also be said to be very busy. If you want to have a scale of more than 100 boxes, basically there is work to do every day, big work and small work, you must be diligent, as a beekeeper, you must learn from bees to be diligent. As for the bee products of this bee, such as honey, royal jelly, and bee pollen, this is a very nutritious health care product necessary for the human body, and health care and nutrition are all a food. ”
Beekeeping is a way to get rich with less land, less investment, high income and no pollution, and the development prospects are very impressive. At present, our county has a good ecological environment, rich honey sources, and Zuo Facheng adopts original ecological farming, his pure natural honey tastes pure, and people come to buy it in an endless stream, and honey is in short supply.
Beekeeper Zuo Facheng said: "So this product can be said to be very green, without any additives or anything, directly to the beehive, after the bee is taken out, the honey is directly purchased by buyers." Some people are even waiting there when they are taking honey, and there are many customers who buy nothing, and my things are still in short supply every year, and I don't have to worry about sales. ”
Although the bees are so ordinary that they are often overlooked, they always work hard, silently picking their own flowers, brewing their own honey, and pursuing their own happiness. For decades, Zuo Facheng has always been obsessed with his beekeeping business, and he believes that his life will be sweeter and happier.
"With more than 50 years of beekeeping experience, I also have a deep affection for this business, especially for the little bees, and I have to see their honey collection and living conditions every day, and my heart is very fulfilling. In my lifetime, I will definitely continue to do this business, and I believe that our life will get better and better. Beekeeper Zuo Facheng said.
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