Essay On Beekeeping

Esplana (2013) cited that the estimated total demand of honey in the Philippines per year is about 370 to 535 tons and only about 150 tons are produced locally which come from four species of bees namely: Apis cerana (alig), Apis dorsata (ayukan), Tetragunola spp. (stingless bees, lukot or lukotan) and the Apis mellifera (foreign/European bee).

According to the National Apiculture Research Training and Development Institute (NARTDI), in 2004, there were 434 beekeepers in the country but in 2012, the number reduced by almost half, only 261 beekeepers left. Based from records gathered by NARTDI (2016), at present, there are only 202 active beekeepers with a total of 1,434 colony holdings in the Philippines. Among the regions where there are beekeeping projects, Region 1 and the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR), have the most number of beekeepers.

With little knowledge about the honeybees and their importance to human life, it is of no doubt that there is a limited number of people who are into keeping Apis mellifera species of bees compared to other commodities like livestock and poultry which are common

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