HONEY MARKET– ACTUALITY AND PERSPECTIVES

Petru­ta TUREK-RAHOVEANU¹,  Diana Maria ILIE²
RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR THE ECONOMY OF AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT^1,2
Cor­re­spond­ing author e‑mail: turek.petruta @ iceadr.ro
Abstract: Api­cul­ture as a branch of agri­cul­ture bases on bee’s instinct to store food sup­plies over con­sump­tion need. sup­plies that are used by the bee­keep­er. From the tech­ni­cal-sci­en­tif­ic and socio-eco­nom­ic evo­lu­tion point of view. it caused the increase of food and the diver­si­ty of its range. Api­cul­ture has a very impor­tant role in the dis­tri­b­u­tion of hon­ey. but also as a vec­tor of increas­ing the api­cul­ture pro­duc­tion by pol­li­nat­ing the ento­mophile crops. Cur­rent­ly. Roma­nia sit­u­ates among the coun­tries that have a well-devel­oped api­cul­ture. this sit­u­a­tion being a con­se­quence of the large num­ber of bee fam­i­lies at our dis­pos­al. of the quan­ti­ty of hon­ey that was obtained. of the diver­si­ty in api­cul­ture pro­duc­tion and of the results from sci­en­tif­ic research activ­i­ties and train­ing spe­cial­ists. This study presents the evo­lu­tion of the main indi­ca­tors regard­ing the evo­lu­tion of the num­ber of bee fam­i­lies. pro­duc­tion and hon­ey con­sump­tion. as well as a fore­cast until 2027.
Key words: bee fam­i­ly. hon­ey. api­cul­ture prod­ucts
JEL Rank­ing: Q10. Q12