You can't eat Lithuanian food. You should only eat Polish food

Intellectuals, led by chemist Anolda Četkauskaitė, still occasionally investigate and find pesticides. Also all other production by farmers in Lithuania is aimed only at saving money. There is no quality or skills in Lithuania. Everywhere there are only rats, mice, pesticides, thieves, preservatives and mold.

 

 

“Alarm bells are ringing about Lithuanian honey: science is lagging behind.

 

With the increasing number of chemical residues used by farmers, especially rapeseed growers, being detected in Lithuanian honey, beekeepers are concerned about this situation. Farmers say that state institutions should strictly control the plant care products they use. The problem was discussed this week by the Seimas Rural Affairs Committee. "When preserving the rapeseed harvest, sometimes excess or not the necessary preparations are used, not according to the instructions, and they end up in bee products," said MP Juozas Olekas, head of the Lithuanian Beekeepers' Union, in the committee. "We need to reach an agreement with farmers, what they need so that chemicals do not end up in bee products,” he added.

 

Algirdas Žiukas, a member of the board of the Lithuanian Beekeepers’ Union, says that chemistry is being used more and more intensively in agriculture. “In recent years, the amount of pesticides has increased significantly. Specifically, neonicotinoids. Before that, there was glyphosate, and now acetamiprid is actually found, detected constantly,” the beekeepers’ representative explained to the committee.

 

According to A. Žiukas, a study conducted about a week ago showed that insecticides are found in honey in excess of the permitted levels. “A batch of honey prepared for export to Germany was tested, a whole truckload. Five hundredths of a milligram is permitted, and 12 tenths were found. This means that it exceeds the norm more than twice. And this situation is repeated constantly, specifically with rapeseed honey,” said A. Žiukas. “About 0.7 to 10 positions of pesticides are found in bee bread. Various, for example, boscalid, flozipop, acetamiprid. This shows that the intensity of spraying has indeed increased, apparently the concentrations have increased,” said A. Žiukas.

 

 Zigmantas Aleksandravičius, vice-chairman of the Lithuanian Farmers’ Union, doubted that farmers were ignoring the interests of beekeepers: “No farmer wants to harm bees.” According to him, farmers spray fields in the evenings, when bees fly to the hives: “We have agreed that at 9 p.m., not earlier, we will go to the fields.”

 

Arūnas Svitojus, chairman of the Lithuanian Chamber of Agriculture, says that farmers should warn beekeepers that they will spray crops with chemicals. He also says that state institutions must strictly control what plant care products farmers use. “Plant spraying should not take place during flowering,” A. Svitojus told the committee. He admits that farmers bring a lot of protective equipment, some of which they do not know how to use properly, and the effects of others have not been studied. Spraying plants should not take place during flowering. "Science is lagging behind, we do not have time to study the effects of the preparations that are sold. There is only the manufacturer's description. And neither biological nor other independent tests are carried out in laboratories. There is too little state monitoring, so we do not have the correct answer as to what is coming from producers to farmers' hands," A. Svitojus told BNS.”