Spanish beekeeping adapts to the digital age

Spanish beekeeping has been flirting with technology for some time, but it is this year, in a timely coincidence, that it seems to be more decisively adapting to the digital age. This is being done through a collaboration agreement between the German group T-Systems and the Polytechnic University of Cartagena, which have jointly installed monitored hives in the cities of Murcia and Valencia to discover why so many bees are disappearing and how environmental factors affect honey production. Both findings will boost a sector that accounts for 0.44% of total livestock production, with an estimated annual value of 62 million euros, according to data from the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, and Food.