The prospects for the development of beekeeping in Russia as an export industry may exceed our wildest expectations. This is stated by Vladimir Rodchenko, candidate of Economic Sciences, associate professor at the Russian University of Transport, on June 12 in the article published on the website of Industrial Beekeepers of Russia.
“The export potential of Russian beekeeping can exceed our wildest expectations”says the expert.
“Russia is really capable of filling the entire world with honey”, writes Vladimir Rodchenko. To do this, it is necessary to solve a series of export problems, says the expert.
At the same time, only large farms are capable of creating an export product, Rodchenko believes: “In any case, it is the large industrial apiaries that are capable of producing a large volume of homogeneous and good quality honey within a guaranteed period of time. , which is to say, meet the criteria for an export product.”
In addition to exports, industrial bee farms can occupy other market segments, Rodchenko writes: “The replacement of imported bee colonies from neighboring countries and the saturation of the rapidly developing market for pollination services for entomophilous crops in Russia are the most important market segments in which industrial beekeepers will show results. optimal in the near future”..
It should be noted that earlier the head of the Union of Beekeepers of Russia, Valery Kapunin, stated that the import of bee colonies from Uzbekistan led to the deterioration of local breeds, which negatively affected the wintering of bees, as a result, about half of bee colonies died in Russia in the winter of 2024.
Source: Rossa Primavera
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