How Do I Start a Beekeeping Business?

The beekeeping industry is the business of artificially raising bees and taking products such as honey, royal jelly, propolis, pollen, beeswax, bee stings and bee venom, which are included in the broad range of livestock products, so bees are also livestock in a broad sense. The history of bee farming is thousands of years, and the use of honey began in the era of fishing and hunting. It is an agricultural production department that obtains bee products by artificially raising bees. The beekeeping industry is an organic part of modern big agriculture and occupies a relatively important position in China's national economy.

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(1) Investigation of honey sources

Plants for bees to collect nectar and pollen

1. Increase farmers' income

As an important agricultural production sector, the beekeeping industry has important economic value and is an effective measure to increase farmers' income. Beekeepers engaged in beekeeping production to become rich are not uncommon in China. Each group of bees generally earns 100 to 300 yuan, up to more than 500 yuan.

2. Bee pollination promotes agricultural and animal husbandry production

The value of bee pollination to increase crop yields is much higher than the value of bee products themselves. According to statistics from the United States Department of Agriculture, bees pollinate crops, and the value of increased production is 140 times higher than the total output value of bee products; the statistics of the Canadian Department of Agriculture is more than 200 times. According to estimates by the Ministry of Agriculture of China, the social benefits of bees pollinating only four crops, such as rapeseed, cotton, sunflower, and camellia, are 6 to 7 times the direct income of beekeeping.

Feeding management of bees. The purpose is to produce honey

The newly opened beekeeping grounds must first clear weeds, level the ground, clean up, and then display the bee colonies. The basic requirement of bee colony arrangement is to facilitate the management and operation of the bee colony, and to facilitate the bees to identify the location of the beehive of the bee colony. If the number of bee colonies is small, single boxes, single rows or double boxes can be used side by side. For bee farms with a large number of bee colonies, use branches to arrange each row of beehives. The group spacing is 1 meter, the row spacing is 2-3 meters, and the distance is wider. As well.

Medium bee colonies should be scattered, or 2-3 groups can be grouped into groups. The distance between each group or group should be large. The copulation group or new subgroup should be scattered on the edge of the hive, with the nest door facing different directions, and the terrain and features should be properly used so that the bees can identify their beehives.

If a bee colony is temporarily placed at a station or terminal during the transfer of bees, they can be arranged in a circle or a square one by one.

The beehive's nest door is facing south, or southeast or southwest, which enables bees to attend early, and the low temperature season is beneficial to the hive insulation. The beehive should be 20-30 cm high with bricks, stones, wooden frames, etc. to prevent ground moisture from intruding into the beehive and prevent enemies from sneaking into the beehive to harm the colony. The beehive should be flat on the left and right, and the day after tomorrow should be 2-3 cm high to prevent rainwater from flowing into the beehive and to facilitate the bees to clean the bottom of the beehive.