The Regional Secretary for Agriculture and Rural Development, Humberto Vasconcelos, will midday tomorrow distribute 2,000 units of veterinary medicines for the therapeutic and prophylactic treatment of varroasis (a parasitic mite that affects honeybees), to 280 beekeepers, which will allow approximately 9,000 hives to be disinfected against the deadly virus.
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The 16th of August Machico fire, which was caused by someone using an angle grinder, destroyed 37 beehives belonging to beekeeper Pedro David Viveiros.