A growing interest in beekeeping in the Pacific has helped improve yield and quality for more than 30 per cent of the Fiji's pollination-dependent crops. But experts say the country's bees are getting sick and going hungry.
abc.net.au/news/fiji-beekeeping-expansion-but-bee-pollen-stores-down/102096068A boom in beekeeping in the Pacific has helped improve yield and quality for more than 30 per cent of the country's pollination-dependent crops, but it comes at an inopportune time as Fiji grapples with a varroa mite invasion and adverse weather events.Adverse weather has washed away pollen as a food source for bees
Australian and Fiji beekeepers are working together to find practical skills for climate-changing environments."We have increasing rainfall events that wash nectar away. We've got floods, droughts, fires, cyclones," Dr Schouten said. "But now with climate change and the adverse weather we have to educate the farmers in that they now need to."Dr Schouten said in Australia and Fiji, there were a lot of bee enthusiasts but not necessarily people who were keeping bees.
"There are so many things that are required of a beekeeper to make sure the bees are doing OK, in order for them to be healthy, happy, and productive."In 2018, the most serious pest for European honey bees — the varroa mite — entered Fiji. Mr Kumar said beekeepers in Fiji were working to manage the pest as eradication was no longer possible.
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