In Austria, potato growers sow fields with herbs for bees

Farmers in the Austrian Weinfirtel region planted 10 hectares of "bee pastures" in order to increase the diversity of bees as part of the Frutura Organic Bee Apple project, which is run by the Frutura company and the Spar supermarket chain, Fruchtportal reports. Follow the news in a convenient format: Follow us on Twitter In the summer of 2023, the University of Natural History and the Natural History Museum of Vienna reported that the diversity of wild bees in the protected area of Marchfeld (Weinfürtel, Lower Austria) has halved in just 100 years. A group of farmers have embarked on an unusual project with SPAR and Frutura to strengthen species in the region. The concept is as follows: the fallows and biodiversity of participating farmers are transformed into pastures of about 1 hectare for bees using high-quality local seed mixes and thus also a habitat for many other living creatures. We will remind you that within a year, honey began to bring stable profits and high revenue ...