Beekeeping as a business

Beekeeping as a business is now developing at a rapid pace. If you are the owner of an apiary, you have the opportunity not only to regularly eat the products of the life of bees, heals while doing it, but also earn good money on their sale. Experts argue that with a small given business can not begin. It will be simply unprofitable. Beekeeping as a business is beneficial when you are ready to invest in it money and strength. It is necessary to have at least 50 families of these insects in order to receive tangible profits.

First of all, you need to make a business plan for beekeeping. This can be done independently, but it is better to order it to be written to professionals. And it does not have to be dragged around the whole city in search of a firm that provides relevant services. It is enough only to find in the network a specific site where you will make up any business plan on any topic.

In the process of organizing an apiary, it is necessary to take into account a lot of nuances. Let's say you need to place it closer to the melliferous plants. When selecting a site, pay attention to its terrain. The best option - with a slight bias, but even. It should be protected from wind and sun by spreading trees. It is impossible to have lakes or rivers, cattle yards, industrial enterprises or other apiaries nearby. As you can see, there are many nuances, so you will have to work hard to find a suitable site.

Beekeeping as a business will be beneficial if you distribute the beehives correctly in the apiary. They should be staggered, and the optimal distance between families: between rows - four meters, in a row - six meters.

Experts recommend to place the apiary not on the "wild territory", and the site to rent. Then it will be possible to additionally sow the ground with the honeycombs, in order to increase the productivity. And even better - to organize a mobile apiary. Not only that beekeeping as a business depends on the seasons. So there will be times when bees will need to fly long distances in search of honey. But the mobile apiary can solve such problems. In addition, you will receive different types of honey. The bees simply move from the melliferous, which just finished flowering, to the next one. Acacia, clover, buckwheat - they can all be useful to you at different times. In order to correctly calculate everything, you need to have a botanical atlas. You will need to designate in the business plan not only places for the effective placement of hives, but also the timing of flowering of various plants, kilometers. You will also need a storage facility, a workshop, a dwelling for a beekeeper, a stationary winter hut.

Where to get bees to make business profitable? You can have the same lovers as you. But it's better to place an order in the bee-nursery. But to choose the right breed will have to take into account some of the nuances. This refers to the nature of a particular variety, botanical conditions, climate and so on. In Russia they usually acquire such breeds: yellow Caucasian, Central Russian, Krajn, yellow Italian, Ukrainian steppe and others.

As for the staff, beekeeping as a business means hiring so many people to serve the production, based on its size. For a modest apiary, there will be enough and two workers, and a large farm can draw at least 60 people.

Such an idea for business can be approached by a person who loves solitude, has no children, or is at pre-retirement age. To draw such an economy, you need to be ready for a hermit's way of life.

You will need to invest a considerable amount of capital: from 80 thousand rubles to create an apiary (for about 20 families), from 200 thousand a year will go to rent the land, from 3 thousand for one hive, you will also need other equipment.

So, you need to make a business plan. Beekeeping as a business has a profitability of about 30 percent.