The largest commercial honey bee pollinator in one of Australia’s key food bowls claims he can no longer base his 2,000 hive operation in the region because of chemical use by the emerging cotton industry.
Harold Saxvik’s family has been keeping bees at Darlington Point in the New South Wales Riverina for more than 80 years.
In 2013, he lost 500 hives to insecticide spray drift which he believes came from nearby cotton farms.
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