Video: Beekeeping flourishes in Afghanistan Farmers in Afghanistan don't have access to large quantities of modern pesticides. They farm the old fashioned way - hoes, animal drawn ploughs and good old fashioned digging. In some of the northern provinces bee pollination is reaping a 10 - 50 per cent improvement in yield, while in the troubled south the bee business is proving so lucrative that some opium farmers are reportedly switching to apiculture. At a time when world bee numbers are in worrying decline, it is perhaps refreshing that in one of the world's poorest and most war-ravaged countries beekeeping is not only sustainable, but flourishing. Sainaie Satti and Sayed Khan Panjshiri, who work for the Afghanistan Ministry of Agriculture's Beekeeping Programme, give a window in Afghan apiculture and explain how bees are doing more for the country than simply producing honey.