Rebirth in 1984, starting from beekeeping in the mountains

Chapter 148: Ghost Bee Breeding! Poor Mountain Village!
It's May.

The weather in the south is generally getting hotter.

Although it is in the mountains, it is still a bit cool in the early morning and at night.

But after noon, the entire East Ridge began to feel hot.

As the temperature rises.

The bees also began to become more active.

Many nectar-producing plants have begun to enter their peak nectar flow period.

The rape flowers in the field are in full bloom.

The astragalus in the field has entered a world of blooming.

The buds of the Chinese tallow tree on the mountain have begun to bloom one after another.

Plus Robinia...

Benefits of sowing nectar plants.

At this time, it was fully revealed.

The entire Tianmang Mountain East Ridge.

The golden season for beekeeping has arrived.

It is also the busiest season for bees.

The apiary was also extremely busy.

Collecting honey, raising queens, breeding, dividing boxes, making royal jelly, boiling beeswax...

The four apiaries are running at full capacity.

After Fang Hongan returned to Shiwan Village from the county town.

Within a week, two apiaries were built.

One is located in Jiangjialing Village and the other is located in Xichongling Village.

These two apiaries are still using the previous model.

Those who take charge of the business first will select the best and most trustworthy people from among the veterans who have been trained previously.

then……

With the help of the two village committees, we will vigorously promote cooperative beekeeping in these two villages.

At the same time, we are recruiting managers for the apiary.

First there were Shiwan Village and Sangmuling Village, and the first batch of farmers who tasted the sweetness last year served as examples.

In addition, some people from these two villages were fortunate enough to be selected for the second batch of cooperative beekeeping plan of Linyuan Wind Farm this year.

That citrus flowering season.

For this group of people, the gains were real.

So many people are eagerly waiting for the third batch of promotion.

Once the construction of these two apiaries starts, there will be countless people watching them.

What we are waiting for is the moment when this apiary is completed.

In addition, there was the explosive news that many beekeepers in Shiwan Village and Sangmuling Village had already bought television programs.

Under these multiple stimuli, there is no need to mobilize the two villages.

As soon as the news got out, long queues formed outside the village committees of the two villages overnight.

The brigade secretaries of these two villages finally experienced the same kind of happy troubles that the old brigade secretary Wang Xiangshun had experienced.

After receiving these applications, the village committees of the two villages worked day and night and finally submitted the names of the confirmed beekeeping partners.

In this batch, Linyuan Bee Farm gave 100 quotas to cooperative beekeepers in each of the two villages, and the bee farm recruited 10 beekeepers in each village.

After the list was handed over to Fang Hongan, Fang Hongan asked Wang Tong and Fang Chengtao to review it as usual.

Only after confirming that everything was correct did we make the final decision.

After experiencing the large nectar flow period of citrus flowers and rape flowers in April.

There are hundreds of boxes of bees used as breeding bees, and the speed of breeding bee colonies is quite fast.

The one hundred beehives from the two apiaries arrived quickly.

Immediately afterwards...

These were two hundred beehives that were distributed to the farmer.

For this part, the breeding at the apiary alone cannot keep up.

However, the number of bees collected from the mountains and forests of these two villages is relatively small.

At the apiary, long before Fang Hongan went to the county town, some experienced workers had already been selected to form five bee-digging teams.

Start digging wild honey and collecting bees.

After the 200 beekeepers who have signed up are confirmed and receive a simple training.

The wild bee colonies received also arrived one after another.

After distribution, the farmers, who had received training and were very enthusiastic, immediately began to take action.

Jiangjialing and Xichongling also soon ushered in the busy and festive season.

at the same time.

This is the bee farm.

After rounds of running-in.

Wang Tong and Fang Chengtao are now basically helping Fang Hongan to coordinate and manage several apiaries.

Zheng Quan has made the most in-depth research in beekeeping technology.

Fang Hongan also plays to his strengths.

Let him be in charge of Bee Farm No. 2, the largest of the six bee farms.

At the same time, a training room was built in the wooden house complex of Bee Farm No. 2.

While managing Bee Farm No. 2, he was also responsible for training personnel and providing technical guidance.

In addition, there is a joint assistance group composed of ten agricultural school students.

While Linyuan Bee Farm is thriving and developing rapidly, every step it takes is quite steady.

According to the data summarized by each apiary to Fang Hongan.

In addition to the two newly constructed apiaries.

The four apiaries currently operating at full capacity produce more than 800 kilograms of honey every day.

At the peak, it even exceeded 1000 kilograms per day.

On the other hand, farmers can harvest an average of more than 400 kilograms of honey every day.

Plus the two apiaries in Lanxi Village.

Estimated at current levels.

Throughout May, at least 5 kilograms of honey were produced.

And in June and July...

This number will at least increase significantly.

By August, the subsequent apiaries will be completed.

The cooperative farmers continue to promote...

According to Fang Hongan's estimation, it is entirely possible to exceed 10 kilograms.

With this much honey produced.

To meet the needs of food factories, supply and marketing cooperatives, sales agents, and bee wine brewers...

That's basically enough.

As for the two products of beeswax and royal jelly.

As for beeswax, the pharmaceutical factory in Guixian used the beeswax from Linyuan Bee Farm.

The market response has been quite good.

Even the old doctor in Shanmuling Village.

It is said that the Dieda Pills produced by the Guixian Pharmaceutical Factory are more effective than before.

and so……

Guixian Pharmaceutical Factory has also increased its purchases of beeswax.

The monthly demand is over one thousand kilograms.

This demand has basically reached the current supply limit of the apiary.

after all……

One of the great advantages of live frame farming is that.

The consumption of honeycomb is low.

The beeswax production is actually higher than that of the old beehive farming method.

As for royal jelly, the current sales channels have not yet been fully opened.

The apiary still needs an opportunity for promotion.

This opportunity was what Fang Hongan had expected.

I plan to wait until the processing plant is built, and then launch it together with the mead...

When these products are performing normally.

Another best-selling product is facing a shortage crisis.

Ghost bee wine!

This medicinal wine is quite popular in the entire Xiaonan area.

At present, it mainly relies on the sales model of Liao San, Pang Sishun and Huang Guigen.

Since the beginning of spring in 1985, the monthly sales volume has been over 1500 kilograms.

In order to meet the sales volume of 1500 kilograms, the apiary specially formed a bee digging team to dig out devil bees in April.

Found a few steady and capable young laborers.

At the beginning, it was Wang Tong who led the team.

After the few people I brought with me became fully familiar with the task, I handed it over to them.

With the bee-luring technology and bee-proof clothing, this bee-digging team is quite powerful.

There is something to gain basically every day.

All in all, it could have met the sales demand of 1500.

But the last time the pharmaceutical factory from Gui County came over, they became interested after learning that Fang Hongan and his team were producing ghost bee wine.

I want to produce a kind of traumatic injury wine and hope to purchase large quantities of ghost bees from the bee farm.

Every month, there are at least 5 of them.

After them, a winery from the neighboring province of Guangxi also came to them.

What they want to purchase is Fang Hongan's Kitobee wine.

Once he opened his mouth, he asked for at least one thousand kilograms per month.

If we also take into account the agency sales channels that are about to be expanded...

The gap in production is undoubtedly even bigger.

Fang Hongan thought about it.

At least five teams of ghost bees need to be formed to dig, and it is also necessary to ensure that there are always enough ghost bees to dig in this entire mountain so that the supply can be maintained.

But how is this possible?

Think about it.

There is only one way, breeding.

In fact, Fang Hongan had been planning to breed ghost bees since a long time ago.

Although, this idea may sound a little scary at first.

However, in later generations, it actually became a serious breeding industry.

When the benefits are good, it is much more cost-effective than raising bees.

When Fang Hongan proposed this to Wang Tong, Fang Chengtao and the old branch secretary.

Each and every one of them was a little surprised.

After some explanation, out of absolute trust in Hong An, several people accepted it.

but……

Later, when making specific plans, Fang Hongan encountered a problem that was so difficult that he had no idea where to start - site selection.

Raising ghost bees, just hearing about it sounds dangerous.

Even in later times, in many places, it is considered a special breed and requires a special license to breed.

In addition, there are a series of strict regulations on the scale of breeding and the selection of breeding sites.

These days, there are no such regulations.

But the issue of safety is something that must be considered.

The notorious ghost bee has indeed stung people to death.

Plus, they only hunt small insects.

The hunting radius is very wide.

There is no suitable place for breeding in the entire Dongling area.

But outside Dongling, it becomes quite inconvenient.

Considering these factors, Fang Hongan had to put this plan on hold for the time being.

But at this point, Fang Hongan decided to put this matter on the agenda again.

The ghost bee can be used for medicinal purposes and can also be used to make wine.

At present, the breeding industry has not even started.

It can be said that on this track.

The competition faced is less than that faced by bee farmers.

Wang Tong, Fang Chengtao and Zheng Quan were called together and they discussed it together, but they still couldn't come up with an ideal breeding site.

The next day, Fang Hongan simply spread the issue directly through the apiary.

Linyuan Bee Farm is going to raise ghost bees?

This was when I first heard the news.

Many people instinctively don't believe it.

After getting confirmation from Fang Hongan, he also found it incredible.

However, beekeeping has brought huge benefits in terms of increased income.

No one in the entire Dongling questioned Fang Hongan anymore.

Instead, I felt the great opportunity inside...

Since Fang Hongan dares to raise it, he must be able to do so.

Moreover, it can bring about a lot of fame.

Can make money!
After thinking about this, many people immediately came up with ideas.

These ideas soon reached Fang Hongan's ears.

It's true, Fang Hongan actually collected some valuable clues from these messages.

One of the villages, called Huangshiling, immediately aroused Fang Hongan's interest.

This village also belongs to Qianmaping Town.

It is located at the foot of Dongling Mountain, much closer to Qianmaping Town than Shiwan Village.

The most famous thing about Huangshiling is its poverty.

If we say that the small village of Shiwan Village is a notoriously poor village in the entire Dongling Mountains.

That Huangshiling is Shiwan Village under Dongling!
even……

It is even worse.

Huangshiling is a small mountain village in a valley.

The main reason why it is poor is that the land is scarce and barren.

There are not many paddy fields.

The mountains surrounding the village are covered with a kind of yellowish-brown flaky soft stone.

This kind of stone seems to be a stone that has not yet fully matured, and it will break if you squeeze it lightly with your hand.

The land of Huangshiling Village was reclaimed on this kind of mountain.

The land is full of this kind of gravel.

This type of gravel has poor water retention and low fertility.

It is easy to get drought when farming.

What’s more important is that even after years of farming, it is still difficult to make the land “mature”.

In this era dominated by agriculture, the poverty of Huangshiling Village was inevitable.

Because of poverty...

It is notoriously difficult for the young men in Huangshiling Village to find a wife.

Even if I get married, I dare not have too many children.

Therefore, this small natural village has always had about 34 households and a population of more than 100 people.

The reason why Fang Hongan is so familiar with this village.

On the one hand, it is because Huangshiling is a poor village as famous as their Shiwan Village.

On the other hand, it comes from the previous life.

In his previous life, probably in 2007, Fang Hongan was working at a construction site in another city.

I happened to meet a worker from Huangshiling.

This worker is a simple and honest person who likes to keep quiet.

But he is very down-to-earth and honest to people.

They were both in a foreign land and had the same unhappy life, so Fang Hongan was very caring towards him.

After getting to know each other, they would occasionally chat in their free time.

From him, Fang Hongan learned a lot of information about Huangshiling.

For example, their village is at least five miles away from the nearest village.

For example, there are a lot of insects on the mountains in their village!

Another example……

Many people in the village find it difficult to find a wife even when they are in their thirties or forties.

It was not until the 1990s that the wave of migrant workers heading to Guangdong Province began to emerge.

In order to make a living, people in their village had to start moving to Guangdong Province to make a living.

People who go out basically never return to the village.

By the beginning of the 21st century, their village was almost emptied.

at this time……

Recall this information.

Fang Hongan couldn't help but pat his forehead.

few people!

desolate!

There are many mountains.

Lots of bugs!
These……

Isn’t this the perfect condition for breeding black bees?

How come I missed this before?

After making up my mind.

Fang Hongan called Wang Tong and Fang Chengtao and hurriedly got on the truck of the supply and marketing cooperative.

(End of this chapter)