Current state and perspective for the development of the beekeeping market in the world and Ukraine

Abstract

Beekeeping is an industry that has the potential for development. In Kherson region the production of honey and the regional union of beekeepers are actively developing. Beekeeping is a long sought tradition of the people and only in the early 19th century it became a branch of agriculture. At the present time, beekeeping as an industry is engaged not only in the breeding of bee families and the production of products of their own origin, but also in the use of bees for the plant pollination of entomophilic crops. Ukraine is a country of intensive agriculture, where almost half of crop cultivation requires cross-pollination. Bees give us honey, wax, flower pollen, milky milk, bee-glue, bee poison, drone larvae homogenate. Moreover, recently Apis Mellifera has been used in medicine (bodies of dead bees).