With less Chiuri flowering, beekeepers’ income plunges

Honey production has gone down by as much 60 percent due to much fewer flowers in the chiuri tree and changing flowering timings, say beekeepers.

Last year Aitaram Chepang of Siling in Raksirang Rural Municipality Makwanpur sold honey worth Rs1.5 million harvested from his 200 beehives. He could extract honey from them every 10 days.