Organic Honey Production

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"Organic is a label indicating that the food or other agricultural product has been produced through approved methods that integrate cultural, biological, and mechanical practices that foster cycling of resources, promote ecological balance, and conserve biodiversity, where synthetic fertilizers, sewage sludge, irradiation, and genetic engineering may not be used" (National 2013). Thus Organic honey is the honey that is produced from completely organic sources; beginning from the plant that the bee needs to collect nectar or honey dew from, to the water that the bee gets and uses in the formation of honey, to the bee itself and finally to the bee keeper and his way in feeding his bees, treating them from mites, and his actions in the hive medium. This paper will be discussing the process of organic honey production and the need for governmental laws that organize honey production in Lebanon like the ones in the United States.
According to the article Is There Such a Thing as Organic Honey (2013), for the honey to be organic the apiaries must be on certified organic areas of land, ensuring enough natural resources such as honey dew, nectar, pollen and water sources for bees. Apiaries also must be in an area of land within a radius of 6.4 km from the apiary site, where nectar and pollen sources consist essentially of organic crops and unprocessed areas, natural plants, and crops not subject to the requirements of these standards, but treated with low ecological impact methods which cannot notably affect the organic description of the beekeeping. In addition to that, there must exist a surveillance zone where apiaries must maintain that enough distance from non-agricultural production sources that may lead to contagion; for exampl...

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