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10 - Pre-Honey
10 - Pre-Honey
How can a beekeeper achieve the largest amount of honey from citrus
farms with high specifications
Merging colonies, which takes place before and after the wintering
process, as we find some colonies have become weak sects, whether for
the effort exerted during the activity season or during the wintering
process itself. Therefore, at least two colonies are joined in order to
obtain a strong colony before wintering to resist the adverse conditions
during the fall and winter, while it could be done after wintering to obtain
large quantity of honey.
The beekeeper must provide large areas of flowering crops that produce
nectar to enable bees to collect nectar in abundant quantities, but due to the
diminishing area of agricultural land in Egypt, whether for construction or
otherwise from the cultivation of some strategic crops such as wheat, the
beekeeper resorts to following a specific system through which they can obtain
The largest amount of honey throughout the year, with the difference and
diversity of plant sources, and this system is called the migratory apiculture.