Learning through Doing. Fact 2-Harvest Year

In beekeeping, especially tropical beekeeping which depends pacing a hive, provide minimum management and harvest at harvesting season, there are bad and good years in terms of harvest.

The year 2020/2021 was generally a bad year for Mswakini and the surrounding areas. One of the causative factor was that the rains were highly erratic, raining beyond flowering time. This provided very short time for bees to forage and store honey.