Morocco: The hives placed far from the fields to escape the pesticide

Pesticides are indeed harmful to bees. This is confirmed by an article in Science magazine, which conducted two separate studies, reports the World today Friday, March 30.
Bees disoriented
Both studies emphasize that neonicotinoid family of insecticides most widespread in the world acts on the central nervous system of insects, causing it to lose the sense of orientation of bees and preventing them from joining their hive. Result: billions of bees die each year. A disaster for agriculture as one third of world agricultural production depends on pollination by bees made free. 40% of human food, whether vegetables or fruit depends on these flying insects.
Far fields
Morocco is not spared, either by bee mortality. So to avoid pesticides, some beekeepers have found the solution. "We must avoid placing hives in places where there are industrial plantations. We must emphasize instead the wilderness, "says Hicham Alami, beekeeper based in Casablanca, contacted by us. He insists that the kingdom has a great diversity of natural resources. Hicham Alami added that about 100 bees, he loses every ten years due to pesticides or natural diseases hitting the insect. In total, he has a hundred beehives across Morocco Meknes Ben Slimane, through the Atlas and the Souss valley. "By changing the hive up regularly, it will allow the bees to eat more food and produce different honey different," he says. Thus, Hicham has placed his hives in the mountains, the forest Bouskoura but also in the region of Berkane where currently orange flowers begin to bloom, allowing bees to forage flowers and produce honey and blossom orange. The debate of honey production takes place in Morocco in May.
A hive produces an average of 25 pounds of honey per year in Morocco
Hicham Alami hives produce 5 to 20 pounds of honey each year. The average Moroccan is 25 pounds per hive against 50 to 70 kg for major producing countries such as Argentina, Mexico and India. It produces several honey-based fruit and plant it then sells to pharmacies, health food shops and herbalists. The most expensive honeys are those that wind thyme honey and euphorbia, a cactus genus endemic not only in pushing the Souss, honeys that sell for 400 dirhams a kilo.