Continent
Choose a country. Some already have many connections; others are only beginning to take shape. We show what we know and leave room for what comes next.
23 countries
Antigua and Barbuda has a small but organized beekeeping sector whose strongest documented honey identity is Barbuda Logwood Honey. Cooperative branding and collective trademarks now protect two…
Explore country →The Bahamas has an emerging island-based beekeeping network with active training and small producers, but current public evidence does not yet support a national Honey Region or…
Explore country →Barbados has a small but newly organizing beekeeping sector. The country's first registered beekeeping cooperative was registered in 2025, while a 2026 Ministry official said local production…
Explore country →Belize has a documented national beekeeping subsector with production across the country and strongest output in Orange Walk and Cayo. Government reporting for 2023 recorded more than…
Explore country →Canada is a major temperate honey producer with beekeeping in every province and a strong concentration of colonies and honey output in the Prairie provinces. In 2025…
Explore country →Costa Rica combines a substantial commercial honey-bee sector with unusually rich native-bee diversity and an active meliponiculture research community. Guanacaste and the Nicoya Peninsula are major production…
Explore country →Cuba has a highly structured apiculture system built around registered producers, provincial collection and national quality/traceability controls. The country also preserves a living meliponiculture tradition around Melipona…
Explore country →Dominica has a small, cooperative-centered beekeeping sector shaped by rainforest conditions, heavy seasonal rainfall and repeated development efforts aimed at increasing local honey production and resilience. Current…
Explore country →The Dominican Republic has an active commercial and cooperative honey sector now receiving major government investment. Current policy emphasizes hive expansion, training, food-safety inspection and export traceability,…
Explore country →El Salvador has an export-oriented commercial honey sector supported by government veterinary monitoring, producer cooperatives and extension services. Chalatenango is an important production geography, while the country's…
Explore country →Grenada has a small but highly visible apiculture sector with active national organization, international technical cooperation and an unusual record of award-winning honey. Current evidence supports strong…
Explore country →Guatemala has an export-oriented Apis mellifera honey chain with a national traceability register and a separate, deeply rooted Indigenous stingless-bee tradition. The country is especially important to…
Explore country →Haiti's beekeeping sector is largely small-scale and artisanal, but current projects show strong local organization and new processing infrastructure. The Three Bays protected area, Grand'Anse coastal communities…
Explore country →Honduras has a rapidly developing smallholder and cooperative honey sector with especially strong recent activity in El Paraíso, Colón, Santa Bárbara and coffee-growing regions such as Capucas.…
Explore country →Jamaica has one of the Caribbean's largest organized beekeeping sectors, a dedicated Ministry Apiculture Unit and a distinctive honey culture that includes logwood honey. Current government work…
Explore country →Mexico is one of the world's major honey countries, with federal agriculture authorities explicitly recognizing five apicultural regions defined by climate, flowering and honey characteristics. The country…
Explore country →Nicaragua's honey sector is export-oriented and dominated by small producers, with 2025 reporting citing more than 1,000 beekeepers and about 25,000 hives. The country also has a…
Explore country →Panama's apiculture sector is growing and increasingly research-driven. MIDA counted 652 beekeepers, 15,529 hives and 67,621 gallons of honey in 2025, while IDIAP is actively studying Africanized…
Explore country →Saint Kitts and Nevis has a small rebuilding apiculture sector with deep historical roots, government-led development work and a UNESCO-linked youth biodiversity project. Evidence is strong for…
Explore country →Saint Lucia has an unusually ambitious small-island apiculture sector, with a government Apiculture Commodity programme, organized producer collectives, dedicated processing infrastructure and repeated international honey-show success.
Explore country →Saint Vincent and the Grenadines has a small but deliberately rebuilt beekeeping sector shaped by a near-collapse of managed colonies, queen-rearing investment and island-to-island expansion. Current regional…
Explore country →Trinidad and Tobago has a historically regulated beekeeping sector whose two islands now have notably different managed honey-bee populations: government sources describe Africanized bees in Trinidad and…
Explore country →The United States has a vast, migratory and regionally diverse beekeeping industry. USDA recorded 2.60 million honey-producing colonies and 134 million pounds of honey in 2024, while…
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