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Over 100 beekeepers to attend National Honey Show, on April 19-21
Over 100 beekeepers from all over Romania will attend the 8th edition of the National Honey Fair, due at the Baneasa Apicola platform, of the Bucharest-based Institute for Beekeeping Research and Development, on April 19-21.
'To attend the spring edition of the National Honey Show are expected about 100 beekeepers, namely 10-15 more than in the previous edition. The Fair displays a wide range of honey products, this year. And the International Federation of Beekeeper (APIMONDIA) chairman Gilles Ratia, a constant friend of the Romanian beekeepers will make a speech on the current problems the world beekeeping has been facing, lately,' Romanian Beekeepers Association (ACAR) President Ioan Fetea told Agerpres, on Tuesday.
The ACAR official also stressed that the honey production this year depends on the weather conditions, the acacia honey being jeopardized due to the frost in western Romania, early in March.
The Fair is aimed both to the honey and the honey products consumers and the beekeepers who can buy a wide range of beekeeping equipment. Attending the Honey Show are primary honey makers and companies manufacturing honey products such as nutritional supplements, pills, cosmetics, etc.
Romania averagely puts out 20,000 - 22, 000 tonnes honey, a year, ranking the 4th in Europe, but starting 2012 it made between 50 and 60 percent of the production due to bad weather, the lowest drop registering the acacia and the sun-flower honey.
In terms of honey consumption, one Romanian averagely eats 500 grams honey per year, which means a higher consumption than ten years before, but compared to a German who eats two kgs honey a year, or a Dutch, or a Belgian eating 1.5 kg, Romania still comes among Europe's less honey eating countries.The organizer of the Honey Fair, ACAR is an association set up in 1958, numbering 40 county subsidiaries and commercial units supplying the beekeepers all sort of equipment and the genetic material they need.
Out of the 36,000 - 40,000 Romanian beekeepers, almost 40 percent joined ACAR and they hold 65 percent of the total number of bees, kept in Romania.