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Ukraine is a large honey producer and exporter. A quick search shows them
7th in the world in honey production and 7th on the list of honey exporters
to the US. Needless to say honey production and transport are going to be
problematic this year in Ukraine.
I worked on a beekeeping project in the Republic of Georgia for 3 years not
long after the Russian incursion of 2008. I still vividly remember
visiting an elderly beekeeper/farmer who lived just south of Ossettia, from
which the Russian invasion was launched. He told us the tanks just rolled
through his farm, crushing bee hives, corn cribs, and fences. There is a
high cost to these events, even to bees and beekeepers.
I also went up into Abkhazia, a Russian occupied province of Georgia, with
the UNDP to teach a beekeeping seminar at an elementary school. We stayed
in Sokhumi, a lovely city on a bay of the Black Sea with a view of the high
Caucuses in the distant east. Abkhazia was frozen in time, from the
invasion in 1992. There was little economic activity and severely decayed
infrastructure . Again, not a pretty picture.
Bill Lord
Louisburg, NC
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