The negative trend in honey production in 2021 is confirmed, with beekeepers estimated to lose about 30% of their harvest.

The adverse climate characterized by a winter with higher than average temperatures and a spring with severe frosts and low rainfall has meant that spring yields both for wildflower honey and monoflora have suffered a sharp decline.

From the last report of the national honey observatory, April was the coldest month in the last 24 years, characterized by only two short mild periods, one at the beginning of the month inherited from a very hot end of March, and a second at the end of the month due to the sub-tropical high pressure.

In the month of May, on the other hand, winds were often dry and atypical in terms of intensity and duration.

This anomalous climate blocked the blooms and the frost burnt the existing ones, hindering the work of foraging bees in finding the nectar to store.

Consequently, in addition to the economic damage deriving from the lack of production, the beekeeping companies have also had to face the higher costs incurred for nutrition, the costs for the labor that must travel more frequently to distribute the food to the bees and prevent them from dying of hunger.

Bees are very important for agriculture because they not only bring profit to beekeepers but in general to all agriculture, thanks to their pollination work the quality and yield of many crops are better.

In conclusion we can define the 2021 beekeeping year as the worst ever which due to the last two particularly poor years and to a negative trend of the last 7 years, this drop in production determined an increase in the price of Italian honey in this case more than justified; aware of this we recommend to be attentive to fraud, and carefully read the labels of what webring to our tables in this way you will try to give your small but great contribution to the bee-keeping sector by buying good Italian honey.