SARGHODA: A beekeeper in Punjab carefully puts boxes containing tens of thousands of bees onto the back of a truck under a smoggy, arid sky.
In an increasingly frantic search for blossoming plants, clean air, and temperate temperatures for honey production as the sector is threatened by pollution and climate change, they will collectively travel 500 kilometers (about 300 miles).
Malik Hussain Khan told AFP, “We move the boxes according to where the weather is good and the flowers bloom,” while standing in a field of orange trees whose blossoms didn’t appear until a few weeks into February.
In order to protect their charges from oppressive heat or extreme cold, Pakistani beekeepers usually relocate seasonally.
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa experiences summers, while Punjab experiences winters.
