Indonesia sent a number of expert personnel to be trained in Japan for a few months to master the technology of the European honey bee breeding Apis mellifera. Upon his return from Japan, there are two things they do in this country.
First, import the honey bee Apis mellifera seeds from abroad and its maintenance in Indonesia as taught by the coach. The project ended in the failure. Failure due to European honeybees technology is not suitable for the tropics.
Second, try to develop a local honey bee Apis indica naturally abundant in Indonesia with European honey bee breeding techniques. It is clearly less suitable. You see, the European honey bee flight range of Apis mellifera to find feed can reach 2,000 to 3,000 m radius from the center of the nest, while the local honey bee Apis indica flight Just 100 m radius from the center of the nest. Application of animal husbandry techniques it is clearly not appropriate for the local bees. On the test farm, apiary location Apis indica many locally made ​​is more than 1,000 m of feed resources. As a result, many bees are dying of hunger or run away leaving the nest box. They are looking for another place to nest, at a greater distance from the source of the feed.