Beekeeping is a profitable business even for beginners. And the main goal of the apiary holder is to collect as much honey and secondary products as possible. Therefore, everyone who only comprehends the basics of this lesson is concerned about the question: how much honey can be collected from one hive per season? An approximate forecast is from 20-30 kg, but it all depends on many factors.
Amount of honey for a certain time
Bees always give different amounts of honey, but you can calculate average values, for example, for a season or for 1 year. Each beekeeper will have these data. Below are approximate indicators of the yield of honey for different periods of time.
Per season
The average honey collection for the season can be calculated in advance, knowing how many frames with honey in the hive. At the exit, each has 1 to 1.5 kg of product. If the standard number of frames is 12, then in the end you can get from 12 to 18 kg of honey. In practice, this amount is reduced to 11-15 kg, this is the norm. It is not possible to clean the whole cell, especially since not all frames, especially the extreme ones, are completely filled.
The beekeeper in his video shows how much honey is removed from the bee family for the season:
The maximum and minimum amount of honey can never be calculated in advance. Experienced beekeepers steadily collect from 60-80 kg of honey from the hive over the summer. The average indicators, which you can equal - from 30 to 40 kg per season.
In a year
The figure of honey collected per year is calculated from the moment of the first pumping out until the bees are prepared for wintering. If one bee family produces from 30 to 40-45 kg of honey per season, the figures for the year increase several times (60, 80 kg). However, the desired yield may be less than the beekeeper plans for the same reasons - not all cells are completely filled, part of the product remains in them.
In the harvesting months, favorable for collection, and subject to ideal conditions, the amount of collected nectar reaches 100-120 kg. It is assumed that the bees work well and fill the frames more than once, and the honey plants growing nearby provide them with this opportunity. When beekeepers arrange an apiary on wheels, they manage to gain a record 200 kg of honey per year.
What factors affect honey harvest?
Beekeeping is a difficult craft, and it should be based on several components: the geography of the area, the good hives available for use, and the breed of bees. But the amount of nectar that one bee family is able to bring depends on many factors:
- Climate in general: air temperature, early or late spring and autumn, severe or mild winters.
- The weather, which has a direct effect on the volume of the flower base. In the driest month, the yield is minimal, because honey plants are not enough.
- Selected place. The honey base of one hive can be significantly larger than another.
- Insect health. Strong and strong bees bring many times more honey than weakened ones.
- Bee breedsthat are more and less productive.
How to increase apiary productivity?
Based on the above factors, beekeepers use different methods of beekeeping that increase productivity (for example, build a family or change the uterus during the period of the main bribe). Much depends on the luck and skill of the beekeeper. And to have a lot of honey in the hives, experienced owners observe the following rules:
- place hives in the right places;
- remove a strong bee family;
- control brood, leaving room for honey.
There are ways to increase the productivity of one apiary. The so-called nomad is popular - the movement of hives from place to place. The method is often used in mountainous areas, where there are many honey plants near the apiary. The safest distance to which you can move the hives is up to 30 km from the place of constant wintering. For a year, you can make 3-4 migrations and more.
To stimulate the bees to create new honey reserves, the owner regularly takes out the honey, and the owners of the hive can replenish it up to 10 times per season. It should be borne in mind that a certain amount of nectar is left to bees for wintering.
Terrain honey volumes
There are regions where, from time immemorial, bees have been raised and have large yields, initially favorable due to the successful combination of climate and the growth of honey plants. In good quality meadows, the total yield is about 80 kg of bee nectar per 1 ha, in worse meadows - up to 50 kg, and in swamps - only up to 20 kg per 1 ha. Among natural melliferous lands, the largest amount of honey comes from linden forests, felling vegetation, fires and grasslands, hayfields, wetlands, and pastures.
The honey balance of the surroundings can be calculated by determining the area of the melliferous plants (within a radius of 2 km), multiply this number by the honey productivity of the melliferous plants and add up the total amount of honey that the bees are supposed to collect from all the melliferous plants of the season.
Russian regions
On average, in Russia from one family receive from 7 to 17 kg of marketable honey. The most "honey" regions of the country: the Republic of Bashkortostan, Altai Territory, Tatarstan, Primorye. In these parts, at least 40-50 kg of honey product and more are collected from one hive. For the mountainous zone of the Urals and the Far East, the characteristic “honey” zone is linden, it is presented in its pure form. Daily gain of one hive reaches 10-20 kg.
Bashkiria is not in vain called the honey edge. Bee nectar is also obtained in apiaries, on an industrial scale, and in forests from nests of wild bees (borti). From one side of honey, 1 to 15 kg is collected at a time. The average figure is 5 kg of honey. Today, there are about 400 active boards in the region; in the most successful year, storages extract 3-4 tons of honey from them. Read more about Bashkir beekeeping here.
Also in the top 10 honey regions include:
- Krasnodar region;
- Rostov;
- Voronezh;
- Volgograd;
- Saratov;
- Belgorod region.
Southern regions, as well as mountainous areas, are favorable for breeding bees: the republics of the North Caucasus - Ingushetia, Chechnya, Dagestan, where up to 20 kg of honey is harvested from the hive - and Altai. Sunflower and mixed types of honey collection conditions found in Altai Territory, Rostov and Volgograd Regions, etc., contribute to the spring development of bee colonies. During the season there are two or more productive honey harvests, the yield is good. In central Russia, there are also two main honey collections, from each hive you can get up to 10 kg of honey and more.
In Ukraine
Honey in Ukraine is considered to be honey collected by a bee from one honey plant - monomed. Buckwheat is mainly mined and harvested in the center and in the west. In the south and east of the country, sunflower honey is dominant, acacia honey is considered an elite variety.
The highest honey collections in Ukraine are in apiaries in the Forest-Steppe zone, where linden, buckwheat, rapeseed, legumes, etc. grow in the Steppes. A little less honey. Moderate and small honey collection - in the Polesie zone and in the Carpathians. On average, one bee family produces up to 16 kg of product per season.
What is remarkable is Ukrainian beekeeping, is described in the next article.
The effect of bee breed on the amount of honey
The total amount of honey collected depends on what kind of bees are bred in an apiary. The honey productivity of the breeds may vary. The best breeds have the following breeds:
- Central Russian - gives per season from 30 kg of honey and above, under favorable conditions - up to 100 kg.
- Ukrainian steppe, whose indicators: 30-40 kg, give a maximum of 80-100 kg.
- Carpathian bee. Honey collection - from 30 to 80 kg.
- The gray mountain Caucasian bee gives 28-29 kg.
- The Italian breed produces 25-29 kg per season.
When practicing beekeeping, it is recommended to take into account all the nuances in order to achieve maximum honey production. The bee breed, region and climate also affect productivity, but also the overall efforts of the breeder. On average, one hive produces 30 kg of honey per season. But it may not bring anything to the beekeeper in case of inaction or insufficient care for the hive.
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