Business Side cultivate Honey Bees

The advantage of honey's properties need not doubt. As a highly nutritious food, honey has been known even since the days of ancient Greece or Egypt. In the Age of Ancient Egypt, mead is also used as preservatives and wild game meat kings mummy of Pharaoh. Honey is also believed to prolong the life of people who eat them. Therefore no wonder if the honey of high economic value.

Besides honey, the bees still produce royal jelly, bee pollen, wax, and propolis. Containing antibiotic Propolis is tree sap that bees taken part. According to research, this type of quality is the same antibiotics as contained in the penicillin. The price also relatively expensive.

That's it? Apparently not. Apparently lebahnya could generate money. Besides sold domestically, it was fairly large export opportunities. And business is trendy indeed honey bees in the apiary number of centers in this country. One of them as he had done apiary Center (Apiari) Scouts are entrenched in Cibubur, East Jakarta.

In addition € â € diperahâ honey, bees apparently still holds many other benefits. In China and Japan, for example, can sting for treatment of various diseases. Even in China, bees are also used by large-scale plantations for pollination of various crops such as fruit production. La bee pollination is apparently considered more successful than the human hand.

However, according to Ir. Indra Gunawan, livestock training instructor in Apiari Scout honeybees, bee rampant demand in the domestic market because honey production is far below demand. According to 2002 data, the national honey needs to reach 150 thousand tons per year. Meanwhile, the production scale of only 40 thousand tons.

There are various types of honey bees are worth conducting. Among other types of bees from forest bees (Apis dorsata), the local bees (Apis Cerana), and superior bee (Apis mellifera). Bees superior, as the name implies, the most favored market. This type is more productive than the local bees, as well as more benign. Poisons in the sting is very suitable for the treatment of various diseases. Bees that are cultivated by most farmers in the world originally came from mainland Europe.

From captivity in Cibubur, every month generated 200 to 300 boxes (each box measuring 50 x 40 x 20 centimeters) of superior bee colonies are ready to be sent to all over Indonesia. If every bee boxes worth USD 100 thousand, a month Apiari Scouts can menangguk turnover USD 20 million-USD 30 million. Byproduct which pertained not bad. That even when compared to income from the harvesting of honey every year Apiari Scouts can only pick approximately USD 192 million.

Import demand from a number of countries is actually flowing, including from Saudi Arabia and Australia. But, yes it was, the center is to prioritize the supply of livestock in the country. â € If there is any stock, our new export, â € said Indra. Typically, for every 400 boxes sold U.S. $ 10,000. More expensive yes, because this rate is inclusive of shipping costs.

DO NOT TRY THIS SECTOR IN NEED SPECIAL SKILLS
Actually, many ways of raising bees. However, the simplest there are two, namely, settling and angon system (switch). Angon system is more favorable than the settlement. With a settled system, farmers can only harvest the honey once a year. Meanwhile, in a way angon, bees can be harvested twice a month. Once the crop can be produced 4 pounds of honey per colony boxes.

Best time to harvest honey bees coincided with the harvest. The trend since the availability of abundant feed. Honey, really well, the food of bees. If little honey production, breeding bees could be disturbed.
From each colony, the bees, which can be harvested only 50% of them, plus a queen bee. In packing the queen bee made his own place, a sort of little box stuffed with some worker bees to serve him.

Box packaging must be adequate ventilation air and the food. Normally, food for the bees that are packaged sugar and honey. That way the bees could remain calm and stand in a box for 2-4 days. For shipments of bees should be done at night. This is done to avoid the hot sun can make the bees to panic.

Actually, the most important element in the cultivation of bees is the queen bee colonies. Therefore the price is the most expensive, per head USD 100 thousand, not including equipment used. Besides functioning as a cohesive colonies (per colony can reach 800 thousand worker bees), the queen bee larvae are also produced bees going.

There are two ways menangkar queen bee, that is through artificial insemination or by grafting. Relatively expensive artificial insemination, although the queen bee that produced the highest quality. Whereas a more economical way of grafting.

Originally from a number of larvae placed in the bowl-bowl in a beehive. For worker bees, this bowl will be mistaken for the queen's nest. They will treat and provide food. After two months, the larvae had been transformed into a queen bee will.

Another thing to consider is the environment surrounding the location of captivity. Ideally, this location is part of the plantation areas or flower garden. Feed of the most popular flower of the bee is a woody tree species such as fruit trees, kalianda, rubber, or kapok. Because, as this type of tree will bloom a lot and in a relatively long time.

Potential land for raising bees in Indonesia, particularly outside Java island is rich in forests and plantations. For those interested, do not need big capital to buy estates, but enough to hire him. Land rental cost for 10 boxes of the colony generally Rp 2 million per year.

In addition, farmers must also be vigilant against attacks that often attacks the lice varroa bee colonies. Pests of this type is very fond of eating the bee pupa. Cocoons which will produce larvae attacked the disabled, such as not winged. If not immediately ditangkal, these pests can destroy a bee colony. Apistan antidote drug, a type of insecticide is an undesirable odor to spread lice. However, the drug is hard to come by and expensive because it was imported. There is a fairly cheap and effective, using sulfur and limestone.
Attempted in this sector apparently did not require human resources with specialized expertise. Well, for those interested, Apiari Scouts opened a training course with a relatively affordable cost. Interested?





Source: Edhi Eko Caroko
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