Sweet potato candy can be used for winter bee feed

Using honey or sugar as feed for winter bees is very costly. In recent years, many bee-keeping households have successfully explored the use of sweet potato caramel to feed winter bees. This has led to a significant reduction in bee-keeping costs and significant economic benefits. The specific method for producing sweet potato glycosides is to wash and smash the sweet potato first, then use a gauze filter to obtain a slurry, and after drying, the sweet potato starch is dried. Add starch in water and stir into a paste (the ratio of starch to water is 100:60). Add 0.4% amylase and mix well. Then use 25 kg of hot water at 80°C to mix in starch 10 times. Add 1 hot water and stir once with a spoon. After 10 times of water addition, the starch paste turns from white to translucent. At this time, pour the starch paste into a clean pot and use the fire to stir the sugar. The fire should not be excessive. When the pot of thin sugar water evaporation, the concentration of 35%, you can clean the pot, to be cooled and then stored for use. Feeding overwintering honey bees with sweet potato candy is the same as feeding overwintering honey bees with honey or sugar, but two things should be noted: First, sweet potatoes used to make sweet potato sweets must be free from disease, and second, they should prevent the winter temperatures from being too low and cause the caramel to crystallize. The method of preventing crystallization is to add 0.1% citric acid to the caramel.

Goji, goji berry, or wolfberry  is the fruit of either the name of Lycium or barbarum , two closely related species of boxthorn in the nightshade family, Solanaceae.

The majority of commercially produced goji comes from Ningxia and Xinjiang in Northwestern China, where they are grown on plantations totaling 200,000 acres. In Zhongning County, Ningxia, wolfberry plantations typically range between 40 and 400 hectares  in area. Ningxia goji has been cultivated along the fertile floodplains of the Yellow River for more than 700 years and have earned a reputation throughout Asia for premium quality sometimes described commercially as "red diamonds". Government releases of annual wolfberry production, premium fruit grades, and export are based on yields from Ningxia, the region recognized with-

·         the largest annual harvest in China, accounting for 45% of the nation's total yield of wolfberries (50,000 tons, 2013)

·         formation of an industrial association of growers, processors, marketers, and scholars of wolfberry cultivation to promote the berry's commercial and export potential

·         the nation's only source of superior grade wolfberries used by practitioners of traditional Chinese medicine.


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