Badly insulated hives cause stress that result in disease, winter losses and absconding of bees. A well-insulated beehive supports the best environmental conditions for a bee colony and reduces stress, lowers food consumption and susceptibility to disease, and results in strong colonies.H. Pech...
isn't so prone to swarm as much, great honey producer, light on excess propolis and makes nice looking white comb honey. A great bee for someone new to beekeeping.POOR TRAITS:Can drift between hives and not find their home. Are prone to rob other hives during a dearth. A dearth is a...
Apiculture sector in Turkey still has faced to some important problems with respect to high chemical use in the hives and marketing and export problems caused by quality of honey, mix harvest, and so on. The aim of this research is to analyze of apiaries' technical and economic aspects in...
The technique of cost benefit analysis was used to analyze the data. Findings showed that traditional beekeeping and semi-modern beekeeping (using Kenyan hives KTBH) farms have an average production of 77.46 and 112.68 liters of honey per year respectively, for the respective average total revenue...
Vural, H., Karaman, S., Socio-Economic Analysis of Beekeeping and the Effects of Beehive Types on Honey Production. Not. Bot. Hort. Agrobot. Cluj 2009, 37, 223-227.Vural, H. and S. Karaman (2009). Socio-Economic Analysis of Beekeeping and the Effects of Beehive Types on Honey ...