Mass death of bees occurred in the Altai Territory

Mass death of bees occurred in three areas of the Altai Territory. Beekeepers blame the agricultural producer in this, who treated the field with chemicals. The company denies guilt.

Mass death of the bees occurred in late June in three regions of the Altai Territory, Taiga.info told a resident of the Tyumensevsky district Yevgeny Muravskaya. The interlocutor and her spouse have a personal subsidiary farm, the husband of Eugene is engaged in the apiary.

“This happened on the 30th, bees were injured in Tyumensevsky, Zavyalovsky, Mamontovsky districts. Up to 1000 families died approximately, ”said Muravskaya. - The fields are processed by JSC Orbit: in our newspaper on May 20, they announced that from May 25 to July 25 there would be field processing. And that's it. They did not give another announcement. We raised the law on beekeeping-those who process fields are obliged to give ads to the media in four to five days, on the Internet everywhere. This is not. To argue and sue with JSC "Orbit" ... People have been doing this for years. There can be not to break through the simple mortal. "

According to Evgenia Muravskaya, according to the conclusion of experts, 34 families were partially killed. Now farmers need to understand whether honey is dangerous. “We hand over honey for tests. If the honey is spent, then we will also be forced to just throw it away, ”added Muravskaya.

Other beekeepers also reported the poisoning of bees by the local newspaper Altai Pravda. So, Gennady Fartushny from the Mamontovsky district learned about the processing a few hours before it. He could evacuate the bees if he was informed in a few days.

“I warned some beekeepers, but it was too late. Already at eight in the evening they began to spray the rapeseed. The sun has not yet sat down and the bees have not returned to the hives. I arrived at the apiary and waited. The bees flew and fell dead. The next day I went to the neighboring beekeeper. He has the same situation. The bees flew in and dead, ” said Farutushny.

But the chief agronomist of orbit JSC Ivan Trisin told the publication that he did not feel the guilt of his subordinates: “In the Altai Territory there are many agricultural producers and almost everyone used pesticides. But we differ from all that we warn: we give ads to the district newspaper, we hang up a week before processing the announcement in the villages, then we still officially call the phone. The rest work without notifying beekeepers. And they work around the clock. Why is the orbit is a big question. I think this is not us. We act openly, work at night, we observe all the sanpines. ”

In June, it also became known about the mass death of bees in the Novosibirsk region. Residents of the Kolyvan district also stated that the cause of the chemicals that treated the rapeseed fields was the reason. At the same time, the villagers in the prescribed manner, according to them, were not warned about the dates of processing crops. The SK began checking.

In 2019, in the summer in the Altai Territory there also occurred a mass focus. Hundreds of bee family and 81 apiaries in seven regions of the region were injured. In February 2020, the Rosselkhoznadzor in the Altai Territory accused 17 farms of the death of bees. The farmers did not fully evaluate all the risks of using chemicals for processing crops, experts counted.