Financial evaluation of the natural bee honey project and the most important factors affecting it in Qena governorate

Abstract

The importance of bee breeding is manifold, in addition to the fairy profitability invested in these projects, it has nutritional importance represented in the production of natural honey, wax, royal jelly, pollen, bee venom, as well as the role of the bee insect in pollinating many agricultural crops, the problem of the study is the lack and difficulty of increasing the production of honey bees and the inability of productivity of their homes, which led to high prices and low quality in Qena governorate. Therefore, the research aimed to study the nature of the functions of honey bee production, the most important measures of economic efficiency in the various production capacities of honey bee apiary projects in the research sample in Qena governorate for a year 2021, in addition to studying the financial evaluation of those projects in Qena governorate. The study showed that the criteria for the financial evaluation of the honey bee project were that the return on the pound invested from the costs of the hive in the three capacities of the research sample amounted to about 1.72, 1.99, and 1.59 for production capacities on the order. And that the average annual income per pound invested for the project for the three capacities has reached about 10.35%, 14.18%, and 8.47% for the cell. And that the break-even point for revenues and costs was about 3.51, 2.64, 3.52. The production safety limit was estimated to have reached three capacities in a row 60%, 70%, and 59%. It also turns out that the ratio of benefits to costs of the enterprise at a discount rate of 15%. It amounted to about 1.72%, 1.99%, and 1.59% for the three stings in a row. The study recommends (Providing good breeds of Queens and packages of bees,
providing medicines, vitamins and good proteins for honey production apiaries in the governorate, motivating and encouraging honey producers in Qena governorate to form marketing associations, work on setting up marketing centers, opening new markets and promoting honey apiary products, providing banks and the Social Fund for development in Qena governorate with the necessary funding for the expansion of honey bees in the province with facilitated procedures.