Beekeeping is still carried out by a very small portion in the North region of the
country, because of several factors, among them, the lack of public incentive to
exercise the activity, the climate, the lack of adequate management techniques to
have a greater colony production of bee products, mainly honey and other bee
products (Pollen, apitoxin jelly and others), which may have an even greater value
than honey, as we do not know the real value of their nutritional properties, being
foods producing in two of the areas with one of the greatest diversity of flora in the
world. . The experiment was conducted at the School of Veterinary Medicine and
Animal Science (EMVZ) at the Federal University of Northern Tocantins. being
divided into two parts: the first was the evaluation of bee pollen production during the
months of April to October 2021, being the months the treatments, totaling seven
and six hives the repetitions and the second, evaluation of the bromatological
composition of the samples , regarding crude protein (CP), crude fiber (FB), Ethereal
Extract ash, total dry matter (DM), total carbohydrates (CHO) and gross energy (EB).
Analysis of variance followed by the Scott-Knott cluster test (1974). From the data
obtained, the production of bee pollen in the Cerrado Amazon transition region is
viable, with average daily pollen productivity ranging from 72.28 g in May to 24.93 g
in October. The average honey production in the period was 20.55 kg hive-1. There
was no significant difference for lipids, which ranged from 6.67% to 4.04%, but there
were variations in CP of 27.42% and 20.38%, in ash contents from 3.55% to 2.23%.
There were statistical variations in the levels of total carbohydrates, from 70.01% in
October to 59.41% in June. The bee pollen in the region has a considerable amount
for commercialization and nutritional quality in its composition, in accordance with
current legislation. The only item that fluctuated was the crude fiber in the months of
April and October, with a difference of 0.84% and 0.90%, respectively, while for
those in the dry season it varied from 11.61% and 8.53%.
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