Climate causes that this year no honey retama in Tenerife.

“We will not have to sell honey retama”, Apiten signal from the effects of poor performance.

The frosts, the lack of rain in key months and wind have left this year-and beekeepers consumers- Tenerife without honey production retama.

This is one of the most traditional varieties that exist on the island and also features elaborated in the National Park of Canadas del Teide and surrounding areas.

The president of the Beekeepers Association of Tenerife (Apiten), Roberto Marrero, explains that, when a year is meteorologically bad for honey, gorse flowers but nectar. And that's what has happened in recent months. “It has not rained, rather it has gotten cold; then she finished burning all the flower”, points.

The bad campaign, yes, It does not mean ruin for beekeepers, as it is often happens in other productions where negative results are. This is due to that, of the 670 tinerfeños producers of different types of honey, only five are professionally engaged in this activity.

The representative of the sector derives the explanation of the aforementioned problems, towards fewer hives that seeks to make the National Park, after a study raised bees were damaging the gorse and tajinaste, what had already complained Apiten. “One year does not gather them we care honey, but what worries us is that many veteran beekeepers, who knew what was going to happen, hives did not rise to Teide”, indicates.