CATDOLL : CATDOLL: How to calculate the cost of bee breeding (What are the methods for calculating the cost of bee breeding)

1. What are the costs and benefits of beekeeping?

If you collect wild bees to raise, you only need a box and labor. If you buy Italian bees to raise, one box will cost 300 to 500 yuan.

The income from a box of bees is about one thousand yuan, but this is only relative. There are good years, bad years, and some people don’t know how to raise bees.

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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. Wasp breeding technology and cost?

Hornets are a large family with many species, but those artificially bred are basically large hornets, such as the golden-ringed hornet, black-tailed hornet, black velvet hornet, yellow-legged hornet, etc. The reason is that these hornets not only have large colonies but also have large larvae. For example, the largest hive of a golden-ringed hornet can weigh up to 100 kilograms, thus maximizing the economic benefits of hornet breeding.

2. Living habits

Wasps are typical social insects that live in colonies. The entire colony is composed of female bees, drones and worker bees. Female bees are mainly responsible for laying eggs, drones are mainly responsible for mating with female bees, and worker bees are responsible for foraging, nesting and feeding. In addition, wasps are omnivorous and carnivorous insects. Their food mainly includes the larvae of Lepidoptera insects and nectar and fruits of plants.

3. Beekeeping Tools

Hornet breeding requires professional tools, the most important of which are beehives and anti-sting suits. Beehives can be made of wooden boards or hollowed-out tree trunks, but no matter how you do it, you must leave a nest door for the hornets to enter and exit. The anti-sting suits are used to prevent hornet stings when managing the bee colony. In addition, special mating sheds, wintering rooms, feeders, etc. must be prepared for the hornets.

4. Source of bee species

Bee species are the most basic prerequisite for hornet breeding, but there are essential differences between hornets and honeybees. Bees must rely on a colony to survive at all times, while hornets only need one mating female bee to reproduce. Therefore, you can go to the wild in spring to search for overwintering female bees or small beehives. You can also purchase bee species directly from other hornet farms.

5. Breeding methods

There are two main ways to breed hornets. One is to breed hornets in artificially built mesh greenhouses, and the other is to artificially raise hornets until the female bees build nests and then move them to the wild for release. Although these two breeding methods have their own advantages and disadvantages, the second breeding method is generally adopted because the cost of semi-artificial breeding is much lower than that of fully artificial breeding.

6. Bee colony management

Bee colony management mainly depends on the breeding method. When breeding in bee sheds, food must be provided to the bee colony manually, or food for wasps must be raised or planted directly in the bee shed. Semi-artificial breeding is relatively rough. After the beehive is moved to the wild, the bee colony can forage freely. In order to improve breeding efficiency, food can also be placed for the bee colony to feed.

VII. Precautions

1. Wasp breeding is still in the exploratory and development stage, unlike bee breeding which has basically matured. Therefore, before developing hornet breeding, it is necessary to consider and eliminate the risks that will be faced in the future.

2. Hornets, especially large hornets, are extremely poisonous. Therefore, when breeding hornets, you must take necessary anti-sting measures, and you must also set up "warning signs" in hornet breeding areas.

3. Hornets have few natural enemies when they reach a certain size, but they are relatively vulnerable in the early stages of the colony, especially when there is only one female wasp. Therefore, prevention work must be done to prevent enemies when the colony is still small.

4. When semi-artificially breeding hornets, the breeding density must be considered, otherwise the bee colony may cannibalize each other due to lack of food. In addition, it is best not to breed hornets when there are people raising bees nearby.

4. How does a beekeeping cooperative account for the purchase of bee colonies?

The cost of honey must be recorded in the account. It should be included in the product cost and transferred when it is sold.

The accounting treatment of beekeeping cooperatives can refer to the accounting treatment of rural cooperatives.

I. Institutional requirements for the establishment of accounts for farmers' professional cooperatives

1. In accordance with the "Financial Accounting System of Farmers' Professional Cooperatives (Trial)", establish and improve the systems for cooperative income management, financial expenditure approval, financial budget and final accounting, fund management job responsibilities and financial disclosure, and clearly define the financial powers and responsibilities of the general meeting of members, the general meeting of members, the chairman, directors, managers, and accounting personnel, and pass them through the general meeting of members;

2. According to the basic requirements of the "Accounting Basic Work Specifications" and the "Farmer Cooperative Financial Accounting System (Trial)", an accounting agency shall be established, accounting personnel shall be assigned, accounting books shall be set up, and financial procedures shall be formulated;

3. In accordance with the provisions of the Law on Farmers' Professional Cooperatives, a member account shall be established for each member, and changes in rights and interests such as profit distribution and transactions of members shall be registered and recorded in accordance with the accounting system and the Articles of Association.

II. Preparation before establishing accounts of farmers' professional cooperatives

1. Collect basic information of the cooperative. Business license, tax registration certificate, articles of association, shareholder register, organizational structure and personnel list, bank account opening permit, etc., to determine the cooperative's establishment date, registered capital, legal representative, taxes involved, invoice purchase and tax declaration; member transactions, share capital distribution, profit distribution ratio; staff salary standards, bank account number, account name, etc.

2. Establish a detailed statement of capital contribution. According to the capital contribution agreement, cash contributions need to be accompanied by a cash receipt, and physical contributions need to be accompanied by a list of materials to determine the quantity, unit price, and amount of capital contribution. Contributions of other rights such as land and technology need to be accompanied by relevant agreements to determine the area, price, and amount of capital contribution.

3. Determine the amount of monetary funds. Sort out cash receipts and capital contribution lists to obtain the amount of cash and bank deposit accounts.

4. Check the list of projects under construction, fixed assets and biological assets. Organize the list of fixed assets, mainly involving the name, purpose, commissioning date, amount, ownership, etc.; check the name of the projects under construction and related construction cost bills; establish a biological asset ledger to clarify the production cycle, type, quantity and purpose, etc.

What is the tax policy for rural cooperatives?

To the Departments of Finance (Bureaus), State Administration of Taxation, Local Taxation Bureaus of all provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the Central Government, and cities with independent planning status, and the Finance Bureau of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps:

With the approval of the State Council, the relevant tax policies for farmers' professional cooperatives are hereby notified as follows:

1. The sale of agricultural products produced by its members by professional farmers' cooperatives is deemed to be exempt from value-added tax as if agricultural producers were selling their own agricultural products.

2. General VAT taxpayers can deduct the VAT input tax at a deduction rate of 13% for tax-free agricultural products purchased from professional farmers' cooperatives.

3. Farmers' cooperatives are exempt from value-added tax on agricultural films, seeds, seedlings, fertilizers, pesticides and agricultural machinery sold to their members.

4. Purchase and sale contracts for agricultural products and agricultural means of production signed between professional farmers' cooperatives and their members are exempt from stamp duty.

The farmers' professional cooperatives referred to in this notice are farmers' professional cooperatives established and registered in accordance with the provisions of the Farmers' Professional Cooperatives Law of the People's Republic of China.

5. Is there a future for beekeeping?

My family is a beekeeping family. I have been raising bees for 17 years. There is definitely a future. In the future market in China, health is our further pursuit. There is a huge market. Royal jelly, bee pollen, and honey are all natural green health products. Eating bee products can regulate the body, increase resistance and immunity. The nutritional value is very high and can be taken for a long time without any side effects! As long as the quality is strictly controlled and no fraud is made, and the business can be honest, it will get better and better in the future.