The General Science Association summarizes the work of the Association and the honey beekeeping movement.

At the conference, the General Science reported on the summary of the association's work in 2025 and proposed directions and tasks for 2026. Accordingly, the General Science was established on the basis of merging the Economic Science Association, the Historical Science Association and the Rural Agriculture and Professions Association according to Decision 325/QD-UBND dated February 20, 2025 of the Provincial People's Committee. As of June 2025, the Association has 8 rural agriculture and 1 ornamental plants association, maintaining 419 grassroots branches with a total of 11,792 members.

After the merger, the Association has stabilized the organization, ensured continuous operation, focused on reviewing, synthesizing and developing the 2025 action plan, ensuring the tasks of consulting, social criticism, propaganda, knowledge dissemination, training and transfer of science and technology to farmer members, organizing conferences, seminars and other professional tasks of the Association are implemented smoothly and on schedule. During the year, the Association has completed documents and content to prepare for the first Congress of the General Science Association; successfully organized the Workshop "Digital transformation in agricultural cooperatives in Son La - Issues, current situation and solutions"; coordinated research, compilation and publication of the Military History of Bac Yen and Phu Yen districts; published 65 newsletters "Son La Xua & Nay"; the honey beekeeping movement continues to be maintained, developed, participating in the agricultural product value chain; Bonsai associations continue to be maintained with diverse specialties, satisfying passion and creating income for members.

Leaders of the General Science Association spoke at the conference.

At the conference, the honey beekeeping movement in 2025 was evaluated. With the advantage of the province having over 84,000 hectares of fruit trees, 20,000 hectares of coffee, 6,000 hectares of rubber and over 600,000 hectares of natural forest, this is a great potential for honey beekeeping. The whole province currently has 48 branches, 8 honey beekeeping cooperatives with nearly 2,400 members; maintaining 85,700 bee colonies, annual output reaching 3,200 - 3,500 tons of honey, 200 - 300 tons of pollen, 250 - 300 tons of beeswax; annual revenue from honey bees ranges from 230 - 250 billion VND; average income of beekeeping households reaches several hundred million VND/year. Every year, Son La supplies the market with 1,200 – 1,500 tons of high-quality honey, many products meeting OCOP standards and effectively using the collective brand “Son La Honey”. Beekeeping not only brings a stable income, helping households to eliminate hunger and reduce poverty, but also contributes positively to the overall economic development of the province.

Representatives of cooperatives and typical beekeeping households attended the conference.

Aiming for sustainable development, in 2026, the General Science Association will continue to promote the dissemination of beekeeping in remote areas, striving to increase the total number of bee colonies in the province to 90,000. Focus on consolidating and perfecting grassroots associations, recruiting new members, transferring science and technology to members; performing well the tasks of consulting, social criticism, historical scientific research; promoting the Association's focal role in linking member organizations, members... to actively contribute to the socio-economic development of the province.

Source: https://baosonla.vn/van-hoa-xa-hoi/hoi-khoa-hoc-tong-hop-tong-ket-cong-tac-hoi-va-phong-trao-nuoi-ong-mat-dWmqdMWDg.html