Bee-keeping here is expanding to a “rewarding sweet industry” and the sector is well placed to tap into the world honey market, says a top US apiarist who recently worked with local bee-keepers.
Through the Washington, D.C.-based Partners of the Americas Farmer to Farmer Program, Virginia Webb, a Master Beekeeper and former Tennessee Honey Queen, offered her expertise to farmers in Guyana from April 24 to last Saturday. She observed beekeeping and honey production techniques while offering recommendations on hive management, control of pests, honey and beeswax production, pollen and royal jelly production, queen rearing and marketing, all on behalf of the members of the Guyana Apiculture Society and their associates.
A press release from Partners of the Americas said that the third generation beekeeper observed that small scale beekeeping is expanding to