With a sharp mind, strong will and determination to get rich, Mr. Dong The Chat in Lac Song hamlet, Luong Nha commune, Thanh Son district boldly invested and built a beekeeping model that brought high economic efficiency.
Mr. Dong The Chat (right) has made efforts to build a beekeeping model that brings high economic efficiency.
Born and raised in a farming family, Mr. Dong The Chat has always been struggling to find a new direction to improve his family's economy. Realizing the economic benefits of beekeeping while the locality has advantages in climate, large areas of forest and agricultural land, Mr. Chat has learned from experience and developed the number of several dozen breeding bee colonies mainly to serve the needs of his family. Currently, his garden has more than 300 honey bee hives. In 2020, Mr. Chat established the Luong Nha Honey Bee Cooperative with 7 members who are beekeepers in the commune, bringing the total number of bee colonies of the cooperative to over 500.
Beekeeping is not a hard job, but it is busy with meticulous techniques and requires diligence, combined with passion. The beekeeper must understand the habits of bees, know which season the flowers bloom to move the bee colony to a place with abundant nectar sources. In addition, to help the bee colony develop strongly, the beekeeper must master the techniques of separating the colony, creating queen bees, collecting honey, exploiting royal jelly and pollen, especially promptly handling the phenomenon of bees flying away or larvae diseases. For each time, it is necessary to have appropriate measures to protect the bee colony from cold and heat.
Taking us on a tour of the beekeeping area, Mr. Chat shared: “The beekeeping model has low investment costs, but requires high techniques and meticulous care, food sources, weather conditions, and climate all affect the development of bees. Therefore, at first, when I first raised and multiplied the bee colony, I encountered many technical difficulties. However, with the determination to stick with the beekeeping profession for a long time, I researched and learned from many information channels and collected new technical documents, gradually my family's beekeeping farm became stable."
Every year, the Winter-Spring crop is the time for beekeeping, and from March to May, when the longan flowers begin to bloom, it is time to start harvesting longan honey. At harvest time, the honey will produce 10-15kg/hive. The price of the product sold on the market is from 100-150 thousand/kg. In the Spring-Summer crop, the bee colonies will be moved to localities with more abundant flower sources. From July of the solar calendar, the cooperative will transfer the bees back to do beekeeping, multiply the colonies, and prepare for the Winter-Spring crop.
Currently, Luong Nha Honey Beekeeping Cooperative is exploiting the main products of mixed flower honey, longan honey, wild honey, apple honey and breeding bee colonies. If the season is favorable, exploiting honey and selling breeding bees can bring in an income of 100 - 150 million/year, bringing high economic efficiency.
Not only is he a typical rural youth who competes in production and business, Dong The Chat is always exemplary and takes the lead in activities organized by the locality; enthusiastically instructs other households on beekeeping techniques, exchanges and learns between beekeeping households to learn and exchange experiences. He actively participates in cultural, artistic, sports, environmental cleaning activities, volunteering for social security, and mobilizing members in the branch not to violate the law or social evils.
Comrade Ngo Tuan Khanh - Vice Chairman of the People's Committee of Luong Nha Commune said: Dong The Chat is a dynamic, creative young man who dares to think and dare to do. The beekeeping model of the Secretary of the Youth Union of Lac Song area is a destination for many farmers, union members and young people in the commune to visit and learn. With the encouraging signals from the beekeeping model for honey in the area, it has created more motivation for many households with little investment capital, opening up new prospects for economic development, contributing to hunger eradication and poverty reduction for the locality.
With his continuous efforts, the Secretary of the Youth Union of Lac Song area has been commended by organizations at all levels. In 2023, Mr. Chat also received a Certificate of Merit from the Head of the Provincial Ethnic Committee for his outstanding achievements in emulation movements in ethnic minority and mountainous areas in the period 2021-2023.
Thu Giang
Source: https://baophutho.vn/thanh-cong-tu-nuoi-ong-lay-mat-222416.htm
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