Beekeeping in Australia.

Apiary: noun. a place where bees are kept; a collection of beehives.

The apiary is expected to have 250 hives, a honey extraction plant and equipment to allow for instrumental insemination of bees…NSW Department of Primary Industries has put $1.3million into the scientific bee breeding project to be based at Tocal Agricultural College…Tocal already runs a nationally accredited training for the beekeeping industry. Ms Frost said the great expertise available in terms of genetics used in other breeding programs from UNE and Agribusiness such as the beef cattle industry, will now go into the bee industry.

Click here to read the full article “$1.3m project to help our honey bees” by Michelle Mexon for the Dungog Chronicle.