A team of the Bee Development Centre, Godavari, Lalitpur has arrived here to conduct a study on death of honeybees kept at homes.
The team led by expert on bee, Tirtha Bahadur Shrestha, arrived here for the inquiry.
The team has the members- Sunil Kumar Jaiswal and Dharma Jaishi from Pesticide Development Division.
They began collecting information about the status of bees from the apiarists and the District Agriculture Office. The team is reaching farmers' homes and inspecting beehives.
Chief of Agriculture Development Office in district, Balak Ram Devkota, informed that farmers were keeping the bees of apis cerana species.
The experts reached Pere village of Patarasi rural municipality-1 on Monday. Similarly, they are scheduled to visit the farmers and inspect beehives at Guthi village of Guthichaur rural municipality today.
Office Chief Devkota further informed that the team would visit Tatopani and Chandannath, inquire farmers, and study on beehives, bee pastures, diseases and other hostile elements.
The farmers have expected the solution of their problem with the arrival of expert team.
