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• Business and Economy
• 11 / 20 / 2009

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Elier Sanchez Mora is a beekeeper for five years now. Nowadays, he has 45 hives, the year before he obtained 136 kilograms for each, which granted him the second place at national level, "in 2008 I was almost the first, but did not get there," he says.

"I had some bad luck: I went into beekeeping a year before Hurricane Dennis, which was disastrous, but I went ahead and it took me three years to rise again. Besides being a farmer, I belong to the Cooperative Olimpo Rodriguez here in Punta de Piedra, in Pilon, Granma.

"What affects me the most here is the lack of rain, if the opposite would happen we would have honey all year. "No abuse of stimulant food: I only give the bees sugar when necessary.

The bee is like the fine rooster, if instead of giving it corn, you nourish it with other grains, it will be harmful for it.

If you give the bee too much sugar, it affects its immune system. Eventually these hives get sick.

My plan for this year is two thousand 500 kilos which I am about to fulfill.
"I base my work on the Indian liana and the bellflower of the hill.

The beekeeper should be very jealous with the change of queens, he should do it every year and sometimes twice a year; the systematic work, is crucial for the bee and its honey.

Source: Escambray.cu