Moringa honey: How Italian bees are helping farmers in sweet enterprise
The HinduIt is not easy to describe the taste of fresh, warm honey mixed with natural honeycomb shards. In the rapidly growing artisanal food market of Tamil Nadu, moringa honey is a popular floral nectar, as its deeper, woody flavour has a unique pull on taste buds. For the past two decades, besides growing moringa in Kurumbapatti, Dhandayuthapani has collaborated with the crop’s farmers in Tamil Nadu and Karnataka by placing his wooden beehive boxes in their fields. Besides our moringa honey, we also have bee colonies working on nectars from thumbai poo, mango and chilli blossoms,” says Dhandayuthapani. “We are not charged anything to keep our hives on the field, but we do share a kilo or two of honey with the host farmers from each year’s harvest,” he says.
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