Main Trends Of Increase In Productivity Of Beekeeping

Abstract

A big number of entomophilous plants are cultivated in Russia. These plants need a cross-pollination which is effected by bees only. Beekeeping is a quite specific branch and in a lot of countries it is automated and mechanized. For estimation of the level of labour productivity as well as the level of mechanization and automation in the branch, it is proposed to implement a ROL index. In our work the estimation of ROL across the countries — leaders in bee-keeping — was done. It is proposed to implement the expenditure index which is inverse to the profitability. The objective function of ROL optimization is proposed. The objective function considers the level of mechanization and automation of the output. Optimization of objective function parameters was carried out based on example of Krasnodar region for 4 threshold values of ROL: $ 10 000 per person, $ 20 000 per person, $ 30 000 per person, $ 40 000 per person. These are the main levels of automation and mechanization of technological processes in beekeeping. It was stated that it is possible to increase the ROL up to the advanced countries level by means of increase of automation level. In this case the service norm also increases up to values of USA and Canada. The search of optimal solution of objective function and optimal values of its parameters gave the possibility to establish the rational value of bee-families service norm related to a beekeeper for all levels of automation and mechanization.