"Rebecca is the worlds first apprentice bee farmer, according to the commercial Bee Farmers Association (BFA), which set up the scheme to help arrest a decline in the industry. The average age of a UK bee farmer is now 66 and the number of beehives has declined by 73 per cent, falling from a million hives in 1900 to just 270,000 in 2015."
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