Jumla, September 11
A team from the Bee Development Centre in Godavari, Lalitpur, has arrived in Jumla to investigate the deaths of honeybees kept by local farmers. The team is led by bee expert Tirtha Bahadur Shrestha.
The team includes members Sunil Kumar Jaiswal and Dharma Jaishi from the Pesticide Development Division. They have begun collecting information on the condition of the bees from local apiarists and the District Agriculture Office. The team is also visiting farmers’ homes to inspect the beehives.
Balak Ram Devkota, Chief of the Agriculture Development Office in the district, noted that the farmers are primarily keeping the Apis cerana species of bees.
On Monday, the experts visited Pere village in Patarasi Rural Municipality-1, and today they are scheduled to visit farmers and inspect beehives in Guthi village, Guthichaur Rural Municipality.
Devkota added that the team will also visit Tatopani and Chandannath to gather information from farmers and study beehives, bee pastures, diseases, and other threats.
Farmers are hopeful that the expert team will help solve the problem of bee deaths.
