Pro-Consulting consulting company, referring to the data of the Union of Beekeepers of Ukraine, reported that beekeepers suffered UAH 120 million losses this year due to poisoning of bees with pesticides.
About 40,000 bee colonies (each costs up to UAH 3,000) killed by pesticides. The report notes that Ukraine needs about two years to regain its position in the global honey market, providing that this situation (poisoning of bees) does not happen again, which no one can guarantee.
According to the company’s analyst Ivan Shpak, the export of Ukrainian honey has declined this year due to lower demand abroad and massive bee diseases.
At the same time, the advantage of Ukrainian honey on the world market is in the favorable environmental situation in Ukraine. At the same time, the responsibility of farmers for poisoning bees is too small, even taking into account financial sanctions.
“In order for the beekeeper to really be able to claim any compensation, he must first of all prove that the death of the bees occurred precisely because of the poisoning, and there are only a few such cases. And penalties per se do not even nearly compensate for all real losses,” the expert said.
In 2019-2020, Ukraine is unlikely to resume production and export of honey to record levels of 2017 year due to dumping of world prices for these products, as well as the mass death of bees.
As The Journalist reported, Ukraine approved honey production requirements.
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