Hello friends. I am a post-70s professional beekeeper, let me share with you the benefits of bees pollinating sunflowers.
Sunflowers are the main crop grown in many northern provinces, mainly producing oilseeds and some snack foods. The flowers are pretty, like the sun, and follow the sun before they bloom. Hence the name: Sunflower.
Sunflowers are drought resistant and salt tolerant. It is mostly distributed in Xinjiang and Inner Mongolia, which are heavily saline and arid places. Sunflowers are cross-pollinated and are insect-borne. So bees pollinate sunflowers in a positive way.
Why do placing bees increase sunflower yields and how are they placed?
Sunflowers are insect-borne pollen crops, and the effect of bee pollination is extremely significant. In the case of natural pollination without bees and insects, the empty shell rate was 85.8%. Therefore, the development of beekeeping and pollination with bees has great benefits to increase sunflower production and reduce the empty shell rate.
Experimental studies have proved that a box of bees is generally placed every 3 to 5 acres of land, and the fruiting rate is more than 95%, and the yield is increased by 10
~20%。 Therefore, the effect of increasing production is obvious. Sunflower farmers should be actively encouraged to introduce bees to pollinate sunflowers!
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