(28 April 2024) 'The stingless beehives provide us extra income!'
Recent visiting of THE-GLOW teaching team provided a chance to engage Thailand local community's farming activities.
The 'Stingless bees' are safe enough to have surroundings of your house as the tiny insects do not sting you at all!
Ajarn Anchana from the Department of Entomology, Faculty of Agriculture at Kasetsart Univeristy translated and explained the local farmer's apicultural experience.
According to the interview, around 1 kg of high quality honey products can be produced from each hive, and it would be quite an amount as he has total 70 hives in his garden.
Unfortunately, the extreme wether in Bangkok this year resulted dropped yield because of not only reduced flowering trees, but also the high temperature melt down breeding cells in the box.
Thankfully, the local species of bees may know how to adapt the rapidly changing weather condition, but the results would not that great news as the farmers may will lost the local bees, but invasive species (bigger body sized) in some day along with changing ecosystems surrounding the area.
For the details, please listen to Ajarn Anchana's interview with the local stingless bee farmer.
We have another chance for further discussion with the local farmers about the matter of climate change and stingless bee farming problems dated on 8 June 2024 with students.
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