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Beekeeping Activities-I The Demographic Characteristics of Beekeepers, the Problems of Beekeeping and the Determination of theviews of Beekeepers related to Current Administrative and Economic Applications

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This research was conducted to determine the situation of beekeeping in respect to socio-economic and demographic characteristics of breeders, supporting, organization and controlling of beekeeping, trade and marketing of bee products in the scope of breeder’s perception and ideas in Malatya. For this reason, face to face interviews with 149 beekeepers were applied by using in selected randomly registered beekeepings to Beekeeping Registration System (BRS) and Beekeepers Association. In this study, it is found out that 95.3% of beekeepers are men and 21.5% are high school graduates, the ratio of beekeepers having 1-10 hives at the beginning is 38.3% and having 51-100 hive snow is 38.5%. In this study, it is calculated that the breeders who are discontent with the supporting of percolony is 58.9%, with the services of the Beekeepers Association is 61.5% and with the application of Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Livestock in the last five year about encouaring, supporting, research, legislation, and application is 87.8%. The deficiency of qualified studs as 68.45%, lack of bee product marketing except honey as 42.95%, high in put prices as 41.61% are stated as the most significant and primary problems.The most important cost in bee feeding and fodder (56%), the most popular marketing in retail method of breeders in marketing (90.6%), the most important expectation of beekeepers in increasing current suppoting from the Ministry (80.54%) are stated. In order to have a profitable and efficient beekeeping in Malatya, establishing right and proper strategies of social, administrative and economic and shaping fundamental structure and application in terms of the stated issues in beekeepings are necessary.

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Demographic , Characteristics , Support , Hive , Marketing

Kocatepe Veterinary Journal

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