In Sardinia, beekeeping is facing an increasingly difficult situation, partly due to climate change and the long summer periods without flowers or nectar. Today, however, we have a possible solution: Eucalyptus occidentalis, a variety that flowers at the end of summer, when nectar is scarce in the area and bees have a harder time finding food.
This is how a group of Sardinian beekeepers deal with the challenges facing the sector.
"Planting this species," explains Davide Meloni, a beekeeper at Uta, "could provide a new resource for Sardinian beekeeping and, at the same time, allow us to reclaim currently uncultivated land."
"The goal," he adds, "is to create a true supply chain: on the one hand, helping bees and beekeepers, and on the other, enhancing the land through crops that can also be used to produce biomass for power plants, creating a potential integration between agriculture, beekeeping, and energy production."
The President of the Regional Council Piero Comandini and the entire assembly are asked to "accelerate the approval process of the amendment to the law on beekeeping currently under discussion in the Fifth Commission, in particular Article 13, which concerns nectar sources".
All this because "Sardinian beekeepers are demanding concrete tools to continue their work and build a new supply chain capable of addressing the consequences of climate change."
