By herve Millet | Founder
Bees forage the flowers to collect pollen and nectar. Pollen is used to feed their youings and the nectar is transform in honey.
In the area where we work, bees forage mainly fruit trees such as mango, cashew, locust beans trees. Those trees are flowering mainly between December and March.
The main harvest of honey is done in April.
Between May and November flowers available for foraging are from plants seeded during the rainy season such as corn, sesame, peanuts. This is just enough for the bees to have enough to eat.
We have provided seeds of sunflowers to the beekeepers. Sunflowers have a lot of nectar and pollen. This will increase the production of honey and / or will help bees to have food for a period when there is little flowers in the fields.
The sunflowers seeds can also been transformed in oil. This is an added profit for the beekeepers.
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