honey– tag –
-
A university-educated Tai woman returns home to build a Lai Chau honey cooperative with nine villagers
In the mountains of Lai Chau province in northwestern Vietnam, a woman who returned to her hometown instead of moving to the city runs a beekeeping cooperative. Lo Thanh Xuan (born 1994), a Tai woman living in Ban Khoang, Muong Than village, came back to the village holding a university degree in rural development... -
4,000 bee colonies earn their keep under the fruit trees: triple cropping at a pesticide-free mango orchard
At an orchard in Khanh Hoa province in south-central Vietnam, a tiny bee just a few millimeters long has become a source of income exceeding one billion dong a year. At the foot of a vast orchard planted with mango and coconut, 4,000 colonies of stingless bees are lined up in hives, in a system that handles pollination and honey harvesting at the same time. The farm...
1