A new project to increase honey production in Wales is urging farmers and landowners to have beehives on their land and so help boost the Welsh honey industry and maybe gain access to farming support.
According to the recently formed Cywain Bee project having beehives on land could not only help the Welsh honey industry, but possibly lead to farmers and landowners achieving additional support through environmental management schemes.
While Welsh honey is much in demand, research commissioned by Conwy Rural Partnership as part of *The Bee Co-operative Project – has highlighted the disparity between demand and supply with requests from retailers as far away as London.