Hello Honey Newsletter April 2022

Hello Honey!

NEWSLETTER

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April 2022

Good Morning from Vietnam!

Easter is around the corner and we send our second NEWSLETTER for you with Information about Honey from Vietnam.

Today we would like to take you with us to meet the “Kings of the Business” the
Honey Hunters and Honey Farmers in Vietnam

These families often since much generation in the collection and gathering and sometimes farming Honey Bees to bring a regularly supply of high end Honey from the Mountains Forests and even the shores of Vietnam

We at VietThanh Honey Experts have the best relations With our Bee Keepers and Farmers and support them. Find the Harvesting areas on our Honey Map of Vietnam below.

So do not hesitate contact us for samples of this Quality And even better give us a chance with a first order to Prove that we at VietThanh give only the best to the markets.

We at VietThanh wish you a beautiful Easter Tide with our Honey from Vietnam!

Herby Neubacher
Communications

Honey Hunters and Honey Farmers in Vietnam

Rice harvest season just ended, but many farmers in the Central Highlands’ provinces are still hard at work. Every day, they rush to the forests to look for beehives and collect the natural honey. The best time to find beehives is from the 4th to the 8th lunar months.

Some simple tools, food and bottles of water are enough for the honey hunters from the Ba Na ethnic minority to start collecting the honey

Bees often come here to drink water and then fly back to their hive. I'd follow the bees to find the hive. Every honey hunter has their own tricks.

To collect wild honeycombs, hunters have to climb trees tens of meters tall or cling to the rocks to poke the beehives the bee hunter often wears protective clothing. Then they burn small tree branches to lure the bees out.

Vietnam has developed a lot of beekeeping farms to meet the increasing demand, but wild honey is still preferred. Hunting wild bees is now considered a lucrative job for many of the Ba Na ethnic minority group.

In 2020, almost 56 thousand metric tons of honey was produced in Vietnam.

The production volume of honey had been increasing steadily over the years

before decreasing slightly in 2020. About 46.000 tons were exported

Honey Harvesting regions in Vietnam (See Map below):

But they always bear in mind the need to protect the forest and the young bees, part out of the deference to the forests' spirits and part out of the concerns for the longevity of their own livelihoods. They always leave the part of the hive with the pupas so that the bees will not leave the hive and help bees regenerate.

What Honey by What Region?

At a young age Children follow the adults into the forest. From watching the bees a few times by the streams, he was able to learn the sites that might sport a beehive.

The Gie Trieng ethnicity learned how to make bee nest boxes on tree trunks when he was small, following his father to the deep forests. The villagers make new boxes and check old ones in the lunar month of early February when the weather is warm and enjoy their sweet rewards in May.

Highlands: Binh Phuoc, Dak Nong, Daklak, Gia Lai, Lam Dong, Tay Ninh.

Central Vietnam: Ha Tinh to Quang Nam.

North of Vietnam: Bac Giang, Hung Yen, Nam Dinh.

Mekong Delta: Tien Giang, Long An, Ben Tre.

Rubber, Cashew: Binh Phuoc, Dak Nong, Daklak, Gia Lai

Coffee Honey: Binh Phuoc, Dak Nong, Daklak, Gia Lai, Lam Dong.

Longan Honey: Tay Ninh, Tien Giang, Hung Yen.

Litchi Honey: Bac Giang.

Acacia Honey: Ha Tinh to Quang Nam.

Coconut Honey: Ben Tre.

Melaleuca: Long An.

Harvesting Times:

They choose big tree trunks with a lot of shade that are located near streams to make the nest boxes, but pleasant smelling trunks are the best choice. Each nest box with 40 Centimeter deep and 25 Centimeter wide is made by digging out a trunk area one meter from the ground. Villagers cover each box with rocks and soil, and then put one to two finger-size holes on the outside of the box for bees to enter.

The key to success is to select rocks to cover the boxes. Each rock has identical features for bees to mark the path and call other bees to make nests. Each rock put in place will stay in the bees’ ‘houses’ for long, up to dozens of years, and will be kept for use in the next season.

All 35 households in one village own at least 20 boxes and some own hundreds. 200 nest boxes and collect hundreds of liters of honey a year and can cover living expenditures for his five children thanks to beekeeping. Tree trunks on which bee nest boxes are made bring profits to villagers. Beekeepers here are nature protectors. Losing forests means losing our huge profits. That’s why every villager is aware of the tree trunks’ important role and protects trees.

Beekeeping Parents give also their Children of the mountains a life of happiness, with food ion the table and regular school education and perspectives for their good future life ...

Rubber Honey: Christmas time to end of April.

Cashew Honey: January to February

Longan Honey: September to December in Tay Ninh, March to April in Hung Yen

Litchi Honey: March in Bac Giang and Hai Duong

Acacia Honey: May to September in Central of Vietnam.