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J. Bažek Jr. was the Head of the Beekeeping Sector of the Institute of Agriculture of the Lithuanian Agricultural and Forestry Research Center, a member of the Board of the Lithuanian Beekeepers Union and a member of the Swedish-Lithuanian Society.
“Lithuanian beekeepers have lost a famous specialist in beekeeping and mother rearing, a disseminator of the latest scientific knowledge for beekeepers,” said Algirdas Skirkevičius, president of the Lithuanian Beekeepers Union.
Jonas Balžekas Jr. was born in Kaunas in 1952, graduated from Kėdainiai District High School, in 1975 from the Faculty of Agronomy of the Lithuanian Agricultural University.
From 1978 to 2009 he worked at the Lithuanian Institute of Agriculture, Beekeeping Sector, from 1997 to 2002 he worked at the Bienen-Meier Beekeeping Company in Switzerland, from 2009 to the present, in his apiary in the Kėdainiai district, on the campus of the Academy.
Jonas Balžek Jr.
In 1992, Jonas Balžekas was the first in Lithuania to defend his dissertation “Using the effect of heterosis of bees to increase the productivity of bees and the pollination of plants” and to conduct lifelong research on the adaptation of Useful bee breeds in Lithuania, applying the results in practice.
He is one of the authors of the textbook “For Beginning Beekeepers”. Here he describes the peculiarities of selection work in beekeeping, aspects of the genetics of bees, subtleties of the breeding of bee colonies.
Jonas Balžekas actively participated in beekeeping training, for many years he was the only laboratory in Lithuania in the field of beekeeping, he was one of the few that was able to use the artificial insemination method, so many Lithuanian beekeepers used his beekeeping queens.
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