It is known that Barbados is the largest importer in the Caribbean of honey, with 60 percent of the total honey imported into the Caribbean coming to barbados. Our current goal at honeycomb bee farms is to combat the high imports of low rated honey onto the island, which also goes hand in hand with the government initiative to boost food security on the island. As the barbadian government continues to boost security farmers are incentives to produce larger quality quantities of food. Honey, being an essential food item and with the government spending so much on it, producing it in larger quantities on the island is the best strategic move to play. Here at Honeycomb Bee farms we intend to be the bridge between high quality local honey and our reduced import bill by becoming one of the main honey producers in Barbados. Furthermore, because beekeeping is versatile, we also plan to execute this plan while helping local organic or backyard farmers who are keen on the idea of having bees

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on their property to pollinate their crops. Similarly, because of the bees these farmers who also agree to this will further benefit from larger increases in yields, cost reductions and boosting overall food security on the island.

The primary reason Bees and other pollinators are declining in abundance in many parts of the world, is largely due to intensive farming practices such as, mono-cropping, excessive use of agricultural chemicals and higher temperatures associated with climate change, affecting not only crop yields but also nutrition. If this trend continues, nutritious crops such as fruits, nuts, and many vegetables will be substituted increasingly by staple crops like rice, corn, and potatoes, eventually resulting in an imbalanced diet. Lastly, bees are under great threat from the combined effects of climate change, intensive agriculture, pesticides use, biodiversity loss and pollution which in terms pose a huge threat to global food security.

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