In Ukraine, record prices for honey have risen

Published 2020년 8월 6일

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The article highlights the significant rise in honey prices in the Vinnytsia region of Ukraine, with a 60% increase to UAH 80 per 0.5 liters this year, due to the most challenging beekeeping conditions in the past 30 years. Adversely affected by a difficult spring, many beekeepers have lost bee families, leading to a reduced honey harvest. To survive, beekeepers have had to double feed their bees and sell other products like pollen, honeycombs, and propolis. Intermediaries are buying the honey at UAH 30 per liter but selling it at three to five times the price. As a result, beekeepers are collecting five times less honey than last year.

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This year in the Vinnytsia region the price of honey has significantly increased, to UAH 80 per 0.5 liters, while last year the price was not more than UAH 50. For 3 liters they ask 450 hryvnias. This was reported by vn.20minut.ua. Beekeepers note that this is the most difficult situation in the last 30 years. "Beekeeping is no longer popular. Ukrainian honey is expensive for us, and the cheapest on the world market. This year the honey harvest will be small, and the price has already risen - not everyone will buy. That's why I also sell pollen, honeycombs and propolis, ”says Oleksandr Dovhalyuk, a beekeeper. According to beekeepers, the reason for rising prices was a difficult spring: rain, cold, winds. Many beekeepers lost more than one bee family because of this. And to save the rest, they had to feed the bees twice a season - not only before winter, as usual, but also in early summer. In 2019, at this time, I have already pumped honey three times, while this year for the first ...

Source: Agropolit