Ecodato: Currently in Colombia occur 3.600 Your. of honey per year.

Bees are perfectly organized social insects that are always from flower to flower in search of food, team working tirelessly, organized for the common good. A species that lives in beehives and from within produces honey in the comb.

In the world there are more than 20.000 species of bees which are recorded in Colombia 600 and it is worth noting that not all produce honey. The above, by classification between social (meliponas, and Africanized bees) with 240 species and solitary bees.

Get productive models are identified as beekeeping, part of them being invasive (household) and wild (meliponicultura) that practice with native species. The first, being a growth industry projected to increase 4.000 Ton for 2020, considering that the country is not self-sufficient consumption needs of the species.

In La Guajira, Corpoguajira forward the consolidation of a pilot center for the generation of this craft practice; you looking for the preservation of the species in the medium and generating economic activity for communities settled in their jurisdiction.