In the village of Romanov, Lutsk district of the Volyn region, bees from 14 hives died. The injured beekeeper Ivan Voichuk wrote about this on his Facebook page.

According to him, on Friday, agronomists sprayed chemicals with sunflower, which is 1 km away. from his apiary.

“The agronomist did not warn the village council about spraying sunflower, which is 1 km away. The state food service does not respond, although I wrote a statement at 13.00. They said that they would arrive at 15.00 - they did not arrive, ”the note says.

Judging by the message of the victim on the social network, the agricultural enterprise guilty of the death of 8 bee colonies in 2017 carried out similar actions to process the fields. Then the beekeeper lost 12 bee families.

Ivan Voichuk claims that law enforcement officers did not respond to his call. Earlier it was reported that forestries of the Volyn region are developing beekeeping in Ukraine.

This year Volyn foresters increased honey production in apiaries at forestry enterprises. The number of bee colonies in apiaries of the state Volyn forestry in 2019 increased to 768. The most famous in Volhynia is the apiary operating on the basis of the Vorotnovsky forestry of the state-owned enterprise “Kivertsovskoye LH”.