Apiaries under fire. Only 25% of honey was harvested in the Kharkiv region, and 50% in Ukraine. What will happen to the price?
Business & Economis | | 575 | Author: Natalia Merkulova
Collage by Olena Zelenina.
Due to the rapid spring, which started a few weeks earlier this year, night frosts during the flowering of gardens and other crops, and an abnormal drought in July, this year was extremely unfortunate for beekeepers in Kharkiv region.
Beekeepers in the Kharkiv region harvested a record low honey yield, four times less than in previous years. In Ukraine, beekeepers also received less honey - only 50% of the harvest last year.
How will this decline in honey production affect beekeeping in the Kharkiv region? Will this lead to the decline of the “honey” industry, which has already suffered as a result of the war? Will all the apiaries survive? And what will happen to the price of honey?
Read more in the Ukrainian edition....
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