Thailand has a group of professional beekeepers from Taiwan, looking at the Thai longan season climate is suitable, not like Taiwan's spring rains affect the honey mining, they 30 years ago from Taiwan with bees flying south to northern Thailand, producing longan nectar, and now the career is successful.
Cheng Ride, president of the Northern Thai Taiwan Merchants Association, recalled that when he disembarked from the Bangkok airport, he went to the cargo station to collect boxes of bees from Taiwan, and he was very worried in his heart, not knowing what kind of water and soil northern Thailand was, and worried about the bees' maladaptation.
Cheng Ri De could not speak a word of Thai at that time, and the Thai driver carried a beehive, and it took 12 hours to drive to Chiang Mai, the language was not clear, when it was time to eat, he could only use gestures to compare the appearance of the end bowl.
He said that the biggest obstacle encountered when he first came was language, and there were no fellow villagers to chat, all day is to do things, only to meet a Taiwanese friend who came to northern Thailand earlier than him, he had the opportunity to say a few words, at that time his workers also thought that the boss was dumb, and the diet was not used to, and the sour and spicy dishes were really not used to, in Taiwan, a meal of two or three bowls of rice, only the next bowl was eaten in the early stage, people lost a lot of weight, and the old mother back to Taiwan was distressed.
Cheng Ride said that Taiwan beekeeping honey to see the weather, every Year in March longan flower season, often three days of rain at both ends, the flowering period is only a short period of more than 20 days, rainy days bees do not go out, harvest completely look at the face of God, some predecessors found that the northern Mountains of Thailand are suitable for longan growth, and the weather is stable, decided to come to northern Thailand to try.
He and more than 10 Taiwanese professional beekeepers have been doing this today, selling back to Taiwan and Japan every year in addition to local sales.
He said that the honey produced in Thailand is very well-known, mainly Thailand is based on agriculture, many fruit crops need bees to pollinate, and even Thailand's royal project also has a honey production and sales project, and honey is a must-buy souvenir for many tourists in Thailand.
Cheng Ride suggested that young friends, if they have the opportunity to try to break through overseas, there are many technologies that can be assisted today, no longer as big as the previous language barrier, if there is a sum of money, to engage in tourism industry or agriculture in northern Thailand, there should be opportunities for development, and the predecessors of Taiwan businessmen who have been working here for more than 30 years are happy to give assistance.