The industrialization of native bee breeding is highly efficient when it comes to the Internet.

Han Xiao showed his native bees to reporters.

Han Xiao's Tufeng culture has realized the harmony between man and nature.

Wage earners return to their hometown to keep bees

Three Rural Express comprehensive report: silkworms, bees make honey, when it comes to beekeeping, people call it a "sweet cause." In March 2010, Han Xiao, a 23-year-old man from Jiedao Village, Tianzhushan Town, Shanyang County, accidentally saw news on the news about encouraging and supporting farmers to develop Chinese bee breeding, thinking that his grandfather and father had raised Chinese bees, so why not try it yourself. He bought professional books and returned home to start a beekeeping business.

Although Han Xiao's grandfather and father have both kept Chinese bees, they have no understanding of advanced beekeeping techniques in living frames. In the first year, only 3 of the 10 cases of bees raised by Han Xiao were left, but he initially mastered the technology of live-frame beekeeping. In 2013, Han Xiaoli's advantage in the hinterland of Tianzhushan National Forest Park set up a standardized Tianzhushan bee breeding demonstration base. In 2015, the number of bee colonies in his family has grown to 372, with an annual income of nearly 1 million yuan, and Han Xiao has also become a veritable "queen bee" in the local area.

Local bees fly with the help of the Internet

"since May this year, the number of tourists to the Tianzhushan Scenic spot has increased. I have sold 1800 jin of honey in one month at most." Speaking of the recent sales situation, Han Xiao said cheerfully. "this is mainly due to online publicity and Wechat sales. Most of the customers who come to me to buy native honey are people from other big cities who find my information online or on Wechat on their mobile phones."

Han Xiao said that in May this year, he set up his own Taobao website and posted the information about raising native bees through the website. unexpectedly, just a day later, he received a call from customers in Wuhan, Shenyang and other places to find out the situation and order honey. and transferred the deposit to Han Xiao's account. Subsequently, Tianzhushan native honey successively opened on the official account of Wechat, Weibo, Taobao, JD.com and so on.

Han Xiao said: "recently, the price of native honey has risen, and the price on the Internet has been adjusted to 79 yuan per catty. There are still many customers ordering native honey. Customers from other places, such as Xi'an, Wuhan and Shenyang, have also come to buy local honey one after another, and local honey is in short supply."

Lead the masses to achieve common prosperity

Today's Han Xiao has become a "big shot" in the eight townships. Whenever beekeepers encounter problems, they come to him for advice. Seeing that Han Xiao earned a lot of money for raising soil bees, farmers in the village were also eager to try. Farmers who raised several boxes of soil bees rapidly expanded the scale of breeding, and even farmers who had not raised soil bees before also raised dozens of boxes of soil bees at once. Tianzhushan Town Street Village Dawuchang Group people Meng Fan steadily raise 60 groups of soil bees, the climate is better this year, the flowering period is prolonged, can cut nearly 200 kilograms of honey, and can achieve an income of more than 20,000 yuan.

According to Han Xiao, the more than 370 boxes of earth bees he raises are all developed by the wild bees on Tianzhu Mountain. Apart from making more than 300 beehives out of their own wood, there is no other investment. Usually the management is also very simple, clean the beehive once a week, trim the hive once a week, and there is no need for people to take care of anything else. "the biggest advantages of native bee farming are low investment, less labor, no worries about selling, and good benefits." Han Xiao said with deep feeling.

"in 2014, a box of native bees can produce eight or nine kilograms of honey, which can be sold for more than 600 yuan, with a net profit of 400 yuan in addition to the cost. This year, due to favorable climatic conditions and abundant sunshine, the average output of soil bees per box has reached more than 10 jin. In addition, the sales price of honey has also increased by more than two yuan per jin, with a net profit of more than 500 yuan per box, and more than 200 groups of Chinese bees can be sold every year. I have an increase of more than 50,000 yuan this year compared with last year. " Han Xiao made a detailed account for the reporter.

In 2015, many professional Chinese beebreeding farmers in Tianzhushan Town actively expanded native honey farming and Internet online and offline business, paying close attention to the high demand for native honey in the e-commerce consumer market. In Tianzhushan town, bee farming soared to more than 2000 cases, and the income from beekeeping alone increased by nearly 2 million yuan over the previous year. Soil bee farming has really become a "cash cow" for the people in Tianzhu Mountain to increase their income.

Local bee farming is moving towards industrialization

In recent years, with the construction of Tianzhushan tourist scenic spot, highway and Tongcun Road in Tongzhen Town, the previously closed Tianzhushan Town has a total of four access roads, and more city people come here for summer vacation every summer. Native honey, as the most famous local specialty, is favored by tourists. When you return, you have to buy a few jin or more than a dozen jin to take back.

With Shanyang County focusing on the development of Tianzhushan tourism industry, but also led to the county's ecological leisure industry and e-commerce heating up day by day, the momentum of rapid development, soil bees breeding has gradually become a new industry for farmers in the mountainous areas of the county to increase their income and become rich. On June 1, the Shanyang County people's Government issued the "opinions on accelerating the Development of Electronic Commerce" and the "interim measures for reward and support for Electronic Commerce" have been implemented one after another. in order to support farmers in mountainous areas to develop soil bee breeding and lead soil bee farming to industrialization and standardization, the county's poverty alleviation, trade unions and other departments have repeatedly invited local professional and technical personnel to hold a number of training courses on Chinese bee breeding in three key towns, including Tianzhushan. Explain the actual operation to the peak farmers and teach the key technologies, so that they can improve their knowledge of scientific breeding and scientific management. In particular, most of the people in the remote mountainous areas of the county have aimed at local bee farming and formulated development plans, and the enthusiasm of bee farmers is higher than that of wave after wave. In 2015, the county's native bee farming broke through the 10,000-case mark.

According to a person in charge of the Tianzhushan town government, soil bee farming has maximized the advantages of local forest resources, complementing the ascendant underforest economy and ecological leisure industry, and with the promotion of e-commerce industry, there is great potential for development. The town has firmly seized this great opportunity to make use of the unique natural resources of Tianzhushan Town to guide villagers to develop soil bee breeding and to radiate to the surrounding mountain towns. While encouraging and supporting farmers to expand the scale of breeding, we should actively carry out technical training in raising local bees, further expand and strengthen the local bee breeding industry, and strive to reach 6000 groups by the end of the 13th five-year Plan, with an annual output of 72 tons and an annual sales of 10 million yuan. turn the small industry of raising local bees into a leading industry for the local people in Tianzhushan town to increase their income and become rich.