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    Out of Belize where all around you could find green, lush rainforest, comes nature's own healthy product - "Rainforest Honey".

    To produce this delicious treat, beekeepers have joined efforts with the conservations groups in preserving the fragile rainforest while reaping the sweet nectar from a wide range of flowering plants to produce quality honey. Using the appropriate management and techniques, beekeepers have greatly reduced the chemicals used in the hive management which eliminates the possibility of pesticide residues in the honey harvest or any of the other bee products produced.
    Along with the MIF/IDB 'Trade Promotion and Business Development' Project, the Ministry of Agriculture has been pooling efforts together to revitalize the honey industry. They have trained 50 beekeepers in basic beekeeping; facilitate financing for the expansion of the beekeeping operation; trained beekeepers in production of other bee products. They also brought in a consultant to develop the standards of honey for Belize and advise beekeepers on the improvement of hive management. Also the Ministry has partially financed the upgrade of the honey processing plant to ensure that beekeepers meet the standards for export.

    The creation of the National Honey Council that will be the responsible unit to gear the honey industry in the right direction and increase the income to the producers, has become one of the milestones achieved since the industry has been recuperating from the invasion of the Africanized bees.

Mission Gilles RATIA  - May/June 2001 - APISERVICES

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