Let's be healthy: What are the benefits of honey and how it is produced in Tatarstan
Proper nutrition is the key to health. But there are products that have not only nutritional value, but just full of vitamins and minerals for human health. Perhaps the most delicious of them is honey.
One of the farmers producing this unique product is Gafur Zaripov from Laishevsky district. The annual biochemical analysis of honey, which is carried out at the request of the farmer's biochemical laboratory in the suburbs, shows the high quality of the main production of peasant farms.
The farmer has a large apiary in the forest - 300 bee families. In order for the bees to have enough land for honey collection, Gafur sows annually such crops as phacelia, bruise, clover, sainfoin. When these herbs bloom, many cars passing through the Orenburg tract stop: passengers admire beautiful fields and take pictures.
Peasant farm Zaripov G.B. produces honey, propolis, bee bread, wax, bee packages.
Naturally, chemical means of plant protection are contraindicated in honey fields. Bees can die. And so as not to be tempted to use pesticides in difficult situations, the farmer intensively cultivates agronomic techniques in the fields - plowing, harrowing, cultivation, crop rotation.
On such fields, grain can be of high quality, both straw and hay. And this is also at hand for the farmer, because he still has up to one and a half hundred heads of cattle - bulls for fattening.
“This year I won a grant from the Ministry of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Tatarstan, so I’ll build another livestock building to increase the number of beef cattle,” says Gafur Zaripov.
The honey of the Zaripov is a family business. His great-great-grandfather Majit began it. Before him, in the village of Malaya Elga no one was engaged in beekeeping. And now, not only Gafur himself, but also his three brothers are engaged in beekeeping: Gafur - for business, brothers - for the soul.
Our reference: honey is an antibacterial, antifungal and antiviral agent, it increases the energy level, vitality and gives strength. If you have a cold, drink a glass of hot milk with a teaspoon of honey at night.
Cheers!