Peruvian Beekeepers' Day: 40,000 producers key to sustainable living systems

Every September 23, Peruvian Beekeeper's Day is commemorated, with the aim of revaluing the essential work of more than 40,000 beekeepers, who produce honey in approximately 300,000 hives. In addition, they play a crucial role in agriculture and environmental conservation. Beekeeping is a way to help people strengthen their system of life and development and ensure the continuity of habitat and biological diversity. Honey is one of the important products that beekeeping offers us and has multiple health benefits, due to its rich content of vitamins, minerals, among other nutrients. According to the Ministry of Agrarian Development and Irrigation (Midagri), Peru has a diversity of types of honey, we can find from dark honey that comes mostly from the northern area, where carob trees grow, to light honey in eucalyptus areas. There are also beehives of various shades, of a multifloral nature, as occurs in our Amazon. All with excellent nutritional characteristics. The regions with ...