Ching Yuan District of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, west China, is situated in the mountains. The vegetation cover rate is high and there are many varieties of wild nectar plants, which is the best place for beekeeping. Ching Yuan in a few years here Efforts were made to promote the beekeeping industry in the district by using modern technology. Along with this, the establishment of Professional Technology Research Institute, the establishment of big data system of smart bee houses, the development of smart beekeeping, etc. gave a lot of help to beekeepers. Due to this the life of the local farmers has become more simple and prosperous.
Ma Yong is a farmer from Xia Chao village in Ching Yuan area. He keeps millions of bees. By running the Smart Bee Farm big data analysis and display app on his mobile phone, he gets complete information about the status of his bees at home, such as how many bees Have gone away for work and how many have not gone out. He told the media that earlier he used to visit the bee farm daily. Now after having the smart farm, he visits only twice in a month.
Ma Yong’s 200 beehive boxes are placed in the Ning Xiu Thien Mu Smart Beekeeping Model Center. Each box is equipped with a small fan, a small heater and a video camera. If the boxes are abnormal, they can watch on mobile. He said that earlier it used to take at least 6 minutes to open and check one box and only 30 boxes could be checked every morning. Three persons were needed for such a big bee farm. Now I alone Apart from this, beekeeping in a scientific way has increased the life rate and production capacity of bees to a great extent. Beekeeping on a large scale cannot be separated from scientific methods.
According to statistics, there are more than 1,200 beekeeping farmer families in Chin Yuan District. It produces 300,000 kg of honey in a year and the annual production value is more than 50 million yuan. Ma Hong Yen, vice president of the Commercial Technology Research Institute of Chingyuan District, said that now each box of the smart bee farm has a QR code attached to it. Customer can see the complete process of beekeeping by scanning the QR code. By buying such honey, there is a firm belief in the quality.
He said that in the next phase we will try the business of beekeeping for customers. It means customer will first buy bee and our farmer will rear bee for them. Customer can monitor cloud beekeeping from mobile. Now honey is ready, So the beekeeper will fill the honey in the bottle or box and send it to the customers by courier. It will definitely be a good experience and investment in beekeeping.
(Credits-China Media Group, Beijing)
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