Farmers believe hand pollination is the best method under adverse climatic conditions. It is possible to do so in low temperatures and bad weather when honey bees don't fly. Although migratory beekeeping is common in the area, beekeepers are not willing to rent their bees because there is a high use of pesticides in apple growing. Hand pollination of apples is a community effort. Apple flowering begins in the lower elevations and so farmers from higher up are free to engage in pollination at lower altitudes and vice versa.
Hand pollination is carried out three times each season to ensure pollination of late flowers.
Governmental extension services have spread the technology of hand pollination, such that human bees now pollinate all 2,000 hectares in the region. An entomology professor at Cornell University for more than 40 years, Morse was also a prolific author. His The Complete Guide to Beekeeping is one of the definitive works on the subject. N.Y. Morse's father, a superintendent of schools, kept bees as a hobby and instilled an interest in his son, who began keeping hives at age 10. He received his bachelor's degree and doctorate from the school before joining the faculty.