CATDOLL : CATDOLL: Profits and prospects of beekeeping (profit and prospects analysis of beekeeping)

1. What is the profit of raising 40 beehives in a year?

A: The profit of raising 40 beehives is about 10,000 yuan a year. Of course, this is a rough estimate and there is a certain difference from the actual number. Some beekeepers may even lose money or earn less.

2. How much can you earn in a year by raising 50 beehives?

Raising 50 beehives can earn about 80,000 yuan a year.

1. Chinese bees: The cost of a box of Chinese bees in the first year is about 650 yuan (about 500 yuan for bee species, about 100 yuan for bee tools, and about 50 yuan for bee medicine and feed). The cost in the second year is about 50 yuan (from the second year onwards, only bee medicine and feed are needed). Chinese bees can produce about 5 to 15 kilograms of honey a year, and the selling price of each kilogram of honey is about 100 to 200 yuan. The profit of a box of Chinese bees from selling honey in a year is about 1,500 yuan. Raising 50 boxes of Chinese bees can earn about 42,500 yuan in the first year, but from the second year onwards, it can earn about 72,500 yuan per year.

2. Italian bees: The cost of a box of Italian bees in the first year is about 300 yuan (about 100 yuan for bee species, about 100 yuan for bee tools, and about 100 yuan for bee medicine and feed). The cost in the second year is about 100 yuan (from the second year onwards, only bee medicine and feed are needed). Italian bees can produce about 100 to 150 kilograms of honey a year, and the selling price of each kilogram of honey is about 10 to 20 yuan. The profit of a box of Italian bees from selling honey in a year is about 1,875 yuan. Raising 50 boxes of Italian bees can make about 78,750 yuan in the first year, but from the second year onwards, you can make about 88,750 yuan each year.

To sum up, how much money you can make by raising 50 boxes of bees depends on the type of bees. For example, raising 50 boxes of Chinese bees can earn about 42,500 yuan in the first year, while raising 50 boxes of Italian bees can earn 78,750 yuan in the first year. Theoretically, the economic benefits of beekeeping are indeed very attractive, but in fact not many people make money through beekeeping. The reason is that beekeeping may fail if one of the climate, nectar source, and technology is missing.

3. How much can you earn per year from beekeeping?

The annual income from beekeeping varies depending on the scale of breeding. For example, there is definitely a difference between the benefits of raising 100 beehives and 200 beehives. However, it does not mean that the more bee colonies you raise, the higher the benefits of beekeeping. The reason is that there is a threshold for the nectar carrying capacity and the number of bee colonies. For example, when Chinese honey bees are raised at a fixed point, there cannot be more than 50 bee colonies within a radius of 3 to 5 kilometers. Otherwise, the more bee colonies you raise, the lower the total honey production.

4. What is the profit of 100 beehives in one year?

The profit from bee breeding will not be fully realized until the second year. The reason is that in the first year, additional costs such as bee species and beekeeping tools are required, but from the second year onwards, there is no need to purchase bee species and beekeeping tools separately, which happen to be the main costs of bee breeding.

1. Profit in the first year: The total investment in raising 100 boxes of Chinese bees in the first year is about 75,000 yuan, and the total income in the first year is about 150,000 yuan. Therefore, the profit in the first year of raising 100 boxes of Chinese bees is about 75,000 yuan.

2. The second year and beyond: To raise 100 boxes of Chinese bees from the second year onwards, it only requires an investment of about 5,000 yuan, but the total income is still 150,000 yuan. Therefore, the annual profit of raising 100 boxes of Chinese bees from the second year onwards can reach about 145,000 yuan.

5. Is there a future for beekeeping?

Bee breeding has always been a highly anticipated breeding project in agricultural breeding. First, the investment cost of the project is not high, and the start-up capital is about 10,000 yuan. Second, the investment is effective quickly. For example, with the lowest production of Chinese bees, raising 50 barrels of bees can produce about 1,000 kilograms a year. Calculated at the current cheapest local market price of 80 yuan, it is about 80,000 yuan! However, although bee breeding has these advantages, there are also many disadvantages. For example, compared with other breeding, bee breeding has a higher technical content and a relatively higher learning difficulty! Second, it is particularly hard. A box of bees weighs about 40 kilograms. If you move frequently, the physical exertion is quite large. In addition, the places where bee farms are generally set up are relatively remote and have a good ecological environment, so you have to endure loneliness!

Can you make money by learning beekeeping? In fact, there are 365 professions, and there are top talents in every profession. As long as you learn well and are willing to endure hardships, you will not lack money in any industry. As the saying goes, hard work can make you rich, which is especially useful for beekeeping. Compared with other breeding industries, beekeeping technology needs to be more proficient, because bees, like other breeding, are also prone to illness. When they get sick, they can't find a local veterinarian like raising pigs and sheep (even if there is one, people are reluctant to go to the beekeeping place), so you must learn how to prevent and control bee diseases by yourself. Some people have to study this course for a year, otherwise it would be a waste of a year if you work hard for a year. In those days, you can find a good beekeeping master or a professional training class to achieve twice the result with half the effort. Some people say that they can learn and learn well through books or videos. I personally think it is a bit exaggerated. Without practice, some finishing touches will be greatly reduced in learning progress and future production effects if no one guides.

A corner of a bee farm deep in the mountains

How will the industry develop in the future? I personally think that this industry should have an explosive period after 2018. Why do I say that? In recent years, the aging of beekeepers has become more and more serious. Even many people in their 70s are still engaged in professional beekeeping. The average age of beekeepers is around 50 years old. If this continues, there will be no one to follow up in this industry. Once this situation continues, the supply of honey in the market will be limited. When supply exceeds demand, the price will definitely rise, and the income from beekeeping will be more ideal than it is now. However, some people will say that the number of beekeepers has been decreasing in recent years, but the price of honey in the market has not fluctuated. Then I will tell you this. When the cost of counterfeiting in an industry is low and the income is very high, according to what Marx said in Capital: If there is a 50% profit, capital will take risks; if there is a 100% profit, capital will dare to risk being hanged; if there is a 300% profit, capital will dare to trample on all laws in the world. Indeed, there is a 300% profit in making fake honey, so some people will take a different approach. Of course, the damage is not only to consumers, but also to those conscientious beekeepers. However, this kind of situation should be less common in the future, because people's ideas and concepts have changed, and they are more sensitive to fake things. More people's honey demand comes from beekeepers, and they go to apiaries to buy honey. Therefore, this primary agricultural product will have more prospects in the future. The beekeeping industry is still a blue ocean, suitable for start-ups based in agriculture to settle in and create their own world.

6. What is the prospect of beekeeping?

First, this happened in the village next to ours. Without much beekeeping technology, they started beekeeping on a large scale and had more than a hundred boxes of Italian bees, thinking that the more they raised, the more money they would make. They also hired a person who had never been in contact with Italian bees and had little beekeeping experience to guard the apiary. They disregarded the beekeeping technology, and before the winter of the first year of beekeeping was over, all the more than a hundred boxes of Italian bees were wiped out.

Second, do not be greedy for a large number of bee colonies when keeping bees. This is what I have experienced myself. The year I started keeping bees, I bought six boxes of Chinese honeybees at the beginning of spring. Basically, each box had four or five honeycombs. At that time, each honeycomb cost 150 yuan, and each beehive cost 100 yuan. In total, I spent nearly 5,000 yuan. Not long after I bought them, the nectar flow period came, which was also the swarming period. The bee colony developed very vigorously, and each box basically had seven or eight honeycombs. I saw many friends swarming on the Internet, with one colony divided into three or four boxes. I was particularly envious, and I was thinking to myself, if I could divide one colony into three, I would have 18 colonies at once. I immediately spent more than a thousand yuan to order more than a dozen colonies online. I was very happy about the beehives. I showed the queen cells to netizens and told them that they could be divided. I was so happy that I learned some techniques from several netizens and started to divide the bees. I divided one box a day. In 6 days, I had divided 6 boxes into 18 boxes. I thought I had made a fortune. But after a few days of happiness, I started to worry. Bees were rising and falling, rushing into the colony, fighting, nest insects, and flying away. After more than a week, there was only one bee colony, and it was still dying. All my confidence was gone. After a long time, I bought some books on beekeeping on the Internet. It took me almost half a year to regain some confidence in beekeeping.

In fact, the main way to make money from beekeeping in rural areas is to sell honey. Because rural development is not bad now, and now the Internet is well developed, beekeeping in rural areas can be promoted through the Internet and one's own social circle. Many people are still very interested in honey produced in rural areas. Most people even come to the countryside to ask you to collect honey and sell it on the spot. As long as you don't forget your original intention and don't add fakes, honey is not difficult to sell. You can also make money from beekeeping in rural areas by selling bee colonies. There are two swarming periods every year. You can separate a part of the bee colony to sell and make a lot of money. You can also go to the mountains to lure bees during the swarming period and make a small profit by selling them.

If you raise bees in rural areas and have a large number of bee colonies, it can also help the villagers get rid of poverty and become rich by raising bees. You can apply for subsidies from the government. The government still strongly supports rural development. How much money you make depends on the local subsidy situation and how you apply for it.

To raise bees, you must first master the technology. When the technology is not mature, you should start with a small number of bees, be down-to-earth, and keep learning. Only then can you raise bees well and make money.