Profitability of Queen Bee Rearing at Apiaries of Different Capacity

Bekić, Bojana and Mladenović, Mića (2014) Profitability of Queen Bee Rearing at Apiaries of Different Capacity. In: International Scientific Meeting Sustainable agriculture and rural development in terms of the Republic of Serbia strategic goals realization within the Danube region: rural development and (un)limited resources. Institute of Agricultural Economics, Belgrade, pp. 614-629. ISBN 978-86-6269-036-4

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Abstract

In this paper authors presented the structure and amount of costs related to queen bee rearing, at apiaries with capacity of 50, 100 and 150 hives, where amortization period of equipment and material is 20 years. Authors presented realized production volume at apiaries of different quantity, production value of queen bees and economic estimation of investing into apiaries with main strategy in queen bee rearing. Besides economic indicators, authors also gave insight into process of commercial queen bee rearing at apiaries of different capacity, which was applied for all calculations in this paper. Main goal of this paper is to present possibility for obtaining a profit at family farm which poses 50, 100 and 150 hives and which is oriented toward comercial queen bee rearing.

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