Mohammad Ghoush * (1) and Mahmoud Alio (1)
(1). Dep. Agricultural Eco., Fac. Agric., Tishreen Univ., Lattakia, Syria.
(*Corrsponding author: Dr. Mohammad Ghoush. E-Mail: mohammadgh85@hotmail.com).
Received: 12/12/2020 Accepted: 7/04/2021
Abstract
This study was conducted on a number of special apiaries in Lattakia Governorate, which is considered one of the most important honey bee keeping areas in Syria, With the aim of calculating the average costs and productive returns of the productive cell, and calculating some economic indicators for this type of agricultural project, using the descriptive economic analysis method, and adopting Average data on the costs and productivity returns of the studied apiaries in the economic calculations. The average annual production costs of the producing cell were 55132 S.P, and the production yield attained 117230 S.P, with an average profit of 62098 S.P, while the average net production costs of honey produced at the cell level amounted to 42318 S.P, and the net profit was 47682 S.P. On other hand, the relative net income per kilo of honey produced is 112.69 % of the total net production costs, while the rentier and profitability coefficients compared to the production costs attained 127.94% and 112.64%, respectively, and economic efficiency was about 2.13, and the Payback period period was about 2.6 years.
Key words: honeybee, analysis, production costs, relative income, profitability coefficients.
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