Barbados may have to explore the option of importing bees if it wants to expand the apiculture industry.
Senior Agricultural Officer Bret Taylor, speaking during the Estimates debates in the Lower House on Friday, said because local bees are aggressive, there may be a need to “bring in foreign bees”.
“We may need to bring in queens that are not as aggressive
RedSea, the sustainable AgTech business whose pioneering technology enables commercial farming in hot climates, has announced two key appointments - Bruno de Oliveira as the Chief Agricultural Officer and Branko Lovic the Chief Plant Science Officer.
Farmers owing allegiance to the Bhartiya Kisan Union (Rajewal) have ended their dharna against the Agriculture Department Jalandhar after the decision to cancel the licence of a seed store of one of their farmer leaders was withheld.
Farmers of the Bhartiya Kisan Union (Rajewal) today gheraod the office of Chief Agricultural Officer, Jalandhar, Jaswant Singh, alleging biased action by the Agriculture Department in a case of spurious paddy seed in Phillaur and Nurmahal.
After unprecedented floods and heat waves battered their crops, farmers in the region are now struggling with a mysterious new disease that has ravaged the paddy crop in various blocks of Doaba — with Adampur, Phillaur and Bhogpur blocks being the worst-hit in Jalandhar.