Beekeeping in the depths of the mountains is busy with the "sweet" industry to get rich.

Check the spleen of the bee, cut the honey, see if there are any mites. Over the past few days, bee farmers in Gaonan Town, Chengkou County, Chongqing have walked through the flying bees, and the joy of a bumper harvest is brimming with their faces, especially bee farmer Wu Xiancheng.

"I haven't slept well since beekeeping, and now the tight strings can finally be relaxed." Wu Xiancheng said: in more than a year, under his meticulous feeding and management, China Bee (Apis cerana cerana) has grown to nearly 300 cases, and this year it can get more than 3000 jin of honey. according to the lowest wholesale price of 50 yuan per jin, the annual output value has reached 150000 yuan.

Speaking of the "sweet" industry brewed by little bees, Wu Xiancheng said that ecological security, technical support and scale expansion are his "magic weapons to win."

Gaonan Town is located in the depths of Daba Mountain, with many mountains, obvious three-dimensional climate and rich honey sources. With the help of this advantage, in recent years, Gaonan Town has supported the development of China Bee industry in terms of technology and funds according to its own reality.

Beekeeping is an "air industry" with no pollution, no occupation of land and obvious increase in income, and Gaonan bee farmers are gradually increasing.

"We have grown up in the Daba Mountains for generations, and apart from farming, beekeeping has the most obvious advantage." Wu Xiancheng said with a smile that he learned that because most of the mountain flowers picked by China Bee are original mountain flowers, the products are environmentally friendly and of better quality, and China Bee Honey has been selling well. He believes that beekeeping to get rich is not a problem.

In early March last year, Wu Xiancheng scraped together 140000 yuan to buy more than 200 cases of Chinese bees and beekeeping equipment from Chengdu to become a bee farmer.

Beekeeping is also accompanied by some bitterness in "sweetness". "the beehive was bought back, and something went wrong in a few days." Wu Xiancheng said that within a few days, the bee larvae in the beehive turned pale yellow and brown, and some beehives even smelled sour, more than half of the 200 beehives.

Wu Xiancheng is a layman when it comes to beekeeping. He has always thought that beekeeping means buying a beehive and putting it on the mountain. As soon as the harvest season comes, he goes up the mountain to cut honey like other bee farmers.

At that time, a large number of larvae died, which startled Wu Hsien-Cheng, and he immediately invited agricultural technicians and experienced bee farmers to "consult."

It turns out that this is a common juvenile disease in beekeeping, locally known as "rotten disease". After treatment and treatment, it took half a month for the colony to "return to the sun."

At this time, Wu Xiancheng realized that beekeeping is not only physical work but also technical work.

Since then, Wu Xiancheng actively participated in local Chinese bee breeding training, heard that Qijiang has Chinese bee breeding experts, he hired a high salary to teach himself by hand.

After a period of accumulation, Wu Xiancheng constantly accumulated experience in beekeeping: beekeeping should be managed diligently, cleaning the hive at regular intervals, checking the spleen of bees, and preventing the "invasion" of foreign bees.

"if you encounter difficulties in beekeeping, find Wu Xiancheng." Today, Wu Hsien has become an expert in beekeeping, and local bee farmers will discuss with Wu Xiancheng when they encounter breeding problems.

In the past, Gaonan people mostly fought on their own in beekeeping, "making small fights". If the output does not go up, the product is cheap and difficult to sell. Wu Xiancheng is well aware that no matter how good the quality of honey is, it needs scale development to improve market competitiveness.

A person's strength is very weak. At the end of last year, Wu Xiancheng distributed 300 cases of bees in proportion to the management of three poor households around him, providing his own technology and marketing. The income earned was distributed to the poor households in proportion to 2:3.

With the participation of his neighbors, Wu Xiancheng had a lighter burden on management, and he focused on expanding the market. At present, in addition to sporadic local orders, Wu Xiancheng's honey has been booked to a dealer in Wuhan for supermarkets and hotels.

"the products are wide out of the mountain gate." Wu Xiancheng said that the foundation has been laid and the market is smooth, and he plans to expand the scale on the basis of the original 300 beehives to allow more neighbors to participate in beekeeping and strengthen the "sweet" industry in Gaonan town.

Deng Dan is extracted from Chongqing Daily.