>Brazil/Venezuela etc, still make honey and
pollinate.

It looks like Brazil currently ranks in the top 5 in honey exporters:

https://www.worldstopexports.com/natural-honey-exporters/

  While there are many factors that contribute to the rapid increase in Brazil's honey exports (including US forage loss), one of the main reasons is the increased productivity of the Africanized bee. Here is a good write-up on the subject:

https://www.cabi.org/isc/FullTextPDF/2005/20053161366.pdf

And a pull-quote:

'While agribusiness exports in Brazil increased 24% during the last two years, honey exports increased 97%. According to recent statistics (Gonçalves, 2004), until 2000 Brazil was not an important honey exporter. In 2001, Brazil exported only 2,489 tons of honey; by 2003 this figure had leaped to 19,271 tons, with an estimate of 24,000 tons for 2004. Brazilian honey production prior to the 50s, before the arrival of the African honey bee Apis mellifera scutellata, rarely reached 5,000 tons/year. Today, Brazilian honey production is about 50,000 tons/year, and the high capacity of honey production of the Africanized honey bees is the main reason for this increase in honey production (Cerri, 1994; Duay & De Jong, 1995; Gonçalves, 1975, 2001; Schnetler, 1946; Toledo, 1997).'


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