The second year with little honey
There very long droughtresulting in burnt summer blooms, he cut nearly half of the honey production in Italy with a collapse, according to the forecasts of Coldiretti, 40% of the production potential. The result is a Made in Italy production of around 13 million kilos, among the lowest of the decade. The Italian honey map highlights declines that go from -15% in Calabria to -60% in Marchefrom -50% in Lazio, Sardinia, Umbria, Abruzzo and Valle d’Aosta to -80% in Basilicata, collapses of 40% in Tuscany, Sicily and Molise and 35% in Emilia Romagna and Puglia, while Veneto and Piedmont lost 30% of production, in Lombardy and Friuli a quarter (25%) of the harvest was cut, a 20% drop is recorded in Trentino Alto Adige, while Calabria and Campania limit the damage with a loss of 15%.
“A situation on which the high temperature and the lack of water with early blooms which – explains the association – forced the beekeepers to leave earlier for the mountain areas and to bring rescue rations to the hives already in the first days of August ”. The Italian heritage of honey, which has more than 60 varieties, is also endangered by you come from abroad grown by almost 18% in the first five months of 2022 and which last year reached 24 million kilos of which more than half (14 million kilos) from Hungary, Romania and Ukraine with almost 2 out of 3 jars in practice of foreign product, explains Coldiretti’s analysis of Istat data.
A San Marino the data are fully comparable to those of the neighboring provinces. Until June it seemed a perfect season – say the beekeepers -, then from July it was perfect very little flowering and therefore of little pollen for bees.