Year: 2018 | Month: March | Volume 63 | Issue 1
Socio-personal and Economic Analysis of Apiculture Enterprise in Hadauoti Region of Rajasthan
DOI:10.30954/0424-2513.2018.00150.32
Abstract:
This study was undertaken with the objective to study the socio-personal profile of the successful bee-keepers and the economic analysis of stationary and migratory apiculture in the Hadauti region of Rajasthan. The average size of migratory apiary units was found to be 192 hives and in case of stationary apiary units on an average there were 78 hives. The analysis of the socio-personal characteristics of the respondents revealed that the majority of the successful bee-keepers were in young age group, farming as major occupation along with bee keeping, high level of extension contact and maximum bee keepers were from other backward category background. The results depicted that the majority of bee keepers were from farming background and they took beekeeping as subsidairy occupation. However, unemployed youth were engaged with migratory apiculture and they adopt bee keeping as their main occupation. The five year average of honey production from migratory apiary units was 40.97 kg/ hive, where as it was only 28.33 kg/ hive for stationary apiary units. The cost-benefit of both migratory and stationary apiary units was found to be 2.61 and 4.00 in the year 2014-15 respectively. Overall, five year average, cost benefit ratio was workout 2.34 for stationary and 3.36 for migratory bee keeping entreprise during the year 2011-2015. It was evident from the results that the net return of bee keepers increased with the increase in the number of colonies.
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