Chungnam Rural Resources Development Agency, demonstration supply of new bee variety 'Jelly King'...royal jelly production quantity↑

The South Chungcheong Institute of Agricultural Technology (Director Kim Young) announced on the 29th that it has provided a demonstration supply of the new honeybee variety "Jelly King," which allows for multiple harvests of royal jelly, to beekeeping farms in the city and county. This supply is part of the "Honeybee New Variety Utilization Promotion Project" jointly promoted by the provincial agricultural technology institute and the Rural Development Administration, with the aim of spreading the results of research and development and increasing the utilization by farms. Jelly King is a variety developed by the Rural Development Administration in 2018, a superior variety bred and propagated in isolated island areas using purebred queen bees. Its water resistance is similar to that of existing honeybees, but it has a higher content and production of 10-HDA (10-hydroxy-2-decenoic acid), a key component of royal jelly, and is evaluated as a variety optimized for the production of ...