The initial investment of funds is 518,000 rubles. According to the beekeeping (apiary) business plan presented here, the net profit is within 58.6 percent per annum.

Honey is a product that has long been considered the most useful and in demand among the population of our country, but the Russian market only satisfies this need for only half, the second half is foreign supplies from a Chinese manufacturer. Therefore, the organization of a private business in the beekeeping business will be a promising solution. We propose to analyze the business plan of the apiary, deal with the costs, risks, expected profits and sales of products.

Description and objectives of the project

Honey is a product that is known to mankind as a useful delicacy with anti-inflammatory and antibacterial properties, containing a lot of minerals and enzymes. It restores strength and tones the body.

The goal of the project is to open a private apiary.

Description of the market

The Russian market represents about 300,000 tons of honey per year, but Russian production allows you to get only 150,000 tons. This is due to the lack of qualified personnel, since not a single university in our country trains beekeepers. Chinese honey has always been questioned due to the widespread use of genetically modified crops. Poor quality of foreign (Chinese) honey led to limited supplies to the US (the main buyer).

Honey is used not only for domestic consumption. A large amount of it is used in the production of food, confectionery, as a sugar substitute. Therefore, products that include honey in their composition are considered to be of higher quality and useful for the consumer.

Today, private apiaries have become the main suppliers of the product on the Russian market.

Organizational stage

The first step is the purchase of ready-made hives. The average cost of one will be about 3000 rubles. In addition, you will need to purchase a full-fledged bee family, the cost of which will be 2000 rubles. In addition to honey, bees are able to produce mead, pollen, propolis. During the season (May-August) up to 7 tons of honey is collected from the apiary.

So, the main components of the apiary are bee colonies and bee hives. Additional funds will also be required in the work - this is inventory, overalls, a beekeeper. Additional costs will be approximately 18,000 rubles.

Staff

The bee lands are usually organized by amateur beekeepers, in whom the beekeeping business is passed from father to son. But the involvement of employees from outside will also be necessary. Production will require a freelance accountant with a salary of 6,000 rubles and 2 beekeepers with a salary of 30,000 rubles. To search for experienced beekeepers, you can contact the Society of Beekeepers. A good salary is an excellent means of attracting an experienced beekeeper to work, but it will be correct to offer not hiring, but rather business cooperation. This type of beekeeping has a number of advantages. The partner will not only provide you with qualified services, but will also help in the organization of breeding bee colonies, the amount of honey from which will increase by 25-30%.

Honey pricing

Since 1 kg of honey on the market is estimated at 150 rubles, respectively, the annual profit of a private apiary for beekeeping will be 1 million 50 thousand rubles. One-time costs will amount to 518,000 rubles, of which: 300,000 rubles will go to purchase hives; for inventory - 18,000 rubles; purchase of bee colonies - 200,000 rubles.

For beekeeping and the sale of honey, not only private consumers should be considered. It is worth trying to conclude contracts with confectionery factories and pharmacies.

This apiary and beekeeping business plan is designed for an annual increase in bee colonies and the number of hives. Therefore, for the sale of products will need a constant search for customers. This business can be handled by an agent, but in order to entrust him with this, you will need to set your own fixed prices.

Financial indicators

Beekeeping is a seasonal business, so the project calculation reflects the average profit. In the autumn-winter period, care for the hives is minimal, but according to financial parameters, 3,000 rubles are laid for the services of a beekeeper who monitors the condition of bee colonies.

The amount of tax deductions will be 6% of the total income or 63,000 rubles.

Risks

The main problem in the beekeeping industry is bad weather conditions. Droughts or rains can adversely affect the collection of honey. The nomadic method of moving hives moving to the most favorable area helps to minimize this risk. This method will increase the volume of production up to 40 kg of honey from each hive. But there will be transportation costs and the cost of renting a truck to transport "bee houses". The nomadic method is popular among Russian beekeepers, as it allows you to increase the volume of beekeeping products and the opportunity to cooperate with other entrepreneurs for a joint parking lot.

The rent for the placement of hives from beekeepers is often not taken.

Bees provide pollination of crops, so farmers are extremely interested in beekeeping. In the West, for example, farmers pay beekeepers up to 20% of their total income for bees pollinating their crops. Having received permission from the local forestry, it is possible to place bee hives in the forest. Forestry also willingly cooperates with private beekeepers.

We hope that a ready-made example of a beekeeping business plan will help you open your apiary.

Despite the bad weather, the meeting of the club of beekeepers of the Kostroma region took place.

Agenda

1. Speech by a beekeeper from the Kaliningrad region on an isolated breeding point.
2. Report of the head of the club on the work of the club of beekeepers of the Kostroma region for 2015-2016.
3. The story about visiting the fair "Golden Autumn" in Moscow and about the round table "Beekeeping in Russia and Prospects"
4. Determining plans for the 2017 season
5. Other matters

Results of the beekeeping season 2015-2016, performances by beekeepers

The chairman of the club, Babushkin Vladimir, spoke:

This season, wintering in my apiary went well, the bees winter on the street, the bee is conditionally Central Russian (local).

According to information in general, in the region, there was a large departure of bee colonies during the previous wintering. The main problem is the Varroa mite or the causes have not been clarified.

Spring development in the apiary was stormy, in May and June the weather and bribes were favorable. The first ten days of July nullified all the bribes. Cold night temperatures and rains nullified all the bribes. The bee flew, played in the apiary, but there were no gains. The result of the bribe is unsatisfactory.

If strong families brought something, then layering or weak families barely provided themselves with food. In general, in comparison of years, 2016 was better than 2015, but worse than 2014.

The beekeeper Melnikov Vitaly spoke:

In the winter of 2015-2016, I delivered 24 families. In the spring, 10 families remained, 14 families died. The reason for the death of bees is Varroa mite. Independently carried out the determination of the causes, a study of dead families showed more than 50% of ticks. To combat the tick, I used strips with the active substance, but the result was not effective.

To increase the apiary, 10 families from Sudislavl were purchased, as well as the uterus of karniks. Now 32 families leave for the winter. I treated the tick in the fall with a smoke gun with a distillation agent. The result is a tick scree, the drug is effective.

The honey collection was poor, on average 20-25 kg per wintering family. But the main goal of this year was the restoration of the apiary. The main goal was achieved, further expansion is planned.

The beekeeper spoke with Apraksino

From the winter, all delivered families came out alive, all 14 pcs. One family, later in the summer, got sick. Families are different, there are in the apiary, both the Carpathian, Karnika, and the local bee, in general, "compote". In terms of bribe, the beekeeping season is better than the previous year, about 30 kg. from a wintering family. The result is not bad.

The treatment from the tick was carried out with the use of plates in the spring and autumn by Ecopol.

Of the families, one family is going weak, perhaps the family has become rotten, now it occupies 3 streets, I decided not to interfere in their lives, time will judge. The rest of the families go into the winter of good strength.

In the spring, they also bought 4 bee packages, at a price of 3500 rubles. per piece The packages are disgusting in quality, the queens are not labeled, they look with frayed wings, possibly old. We bought packages through Avito, found an ad that sells packages of Karpatka from Maykop. The packages were sold by a local beekeeper Alexander from Kustovo, who said that he had been purchasing packages and queens for more than a year. He convinced us that the queens are all labeled, families of excellent quality.

In the spring, the packages developed well, but then they went into swarming. During the autopsy, a large number of laid queen cells up to 25 pcs. on the frame! Honey, respectively, was not taken from such packages. And one package turned bad in the summer, in the other in the fall at -2 C bees flew near the entrance, problems or death of the family are also possible.

This beekeeper was told about the quality of the packages sold, but he said that this was the first time and there were no complaints before.

If you see an offer like this, don't take it.

Speech by Nikolai Grigorievich, a beekeeper from the Kaliningrad region

Over 25 years of beekeeping experience. He keeps two apiaries in the Kaliningrad region (21 and 33 families), one (13 families) in the Kadysky district of the Kostroma region, on the banks of the Nemda River. Hives are used in the apiary by Api-Russ. In the Kostroma region, the father-in-law looks after the apiary, he will soon be 90 years old.

Nikolai Grigorievich was born in the Kaliningrad region and has known bees since childhood. His father was a professional beekeeper and kept nominally 100 bee colonies, sometimes more. His mother was his seasonal assistant.

At the household, there was also an apiary, which Nikolai Grigorievich himself was engaged in. There were a lot of tasks in the apiary, I shot swarms, I was on duty in the apiary.

“The weather was good, all the village boys go to the pond, I could see all this, and I sit worried, waiting for the swarm. That's when the idea arose that I would never be a beekeeper. And I really haven't done beekeeping for a long time."

When Nikolai Grigorievich worked at the factory, on weekends he went to rest outside the city, to a friend. By the will of fate, he met a local elderly beekeeper who, years later, gave him a bee colony.

After that, he made the first hive and became an independent beekeeper.

He started an apiary in the Kadyi region, having bought bees from a beekeeper neighbor. The bees turned out to be very vicious. Thinking about changing breed. He turned his attention to the Polish queen breeders, since beekeeping is quite well established there. As a result, he changed queens not only for himself, but also for a neighbor.

Later he realized that we had a problem that the beekeeper could keep his bee. A bee with its useful qualities. He studied the experience of Europe, and there every beekeeper can save his breed. But this requires a random isolated point (flyer), which are absent in Russia.

About the flyer project

Such a project to create an isolated flyer has begun. Such a point is organized in the Kaliningrad region, on one of the spits of the Baltic Sea. A separate area has been allocated by the regional administration.

What will it give:

There will be known and necessary drones, with all the necessary documents and analyzes. There will be the necessary drone background. At this point, any beekeeper will be able to bring his queen to mate with pedigree drones.

To maintain the point, on the part of the state, from a patriotic point of view, Nikolai Grigorievich will begin work to restore the Central Russian population of bees. The question of finding breeding material of the Central Russian breed remains unresolved.

It is possible to work on karnik, backfast. Within three months, you can bring in successive breeds, for example, bring a carnika drone and the necessary paternal families. Conduct a flight. Next, take away the apiary and bring backfast to this place. It will turn out, if only, a rechargeable apiary.

Such an item will give a 100% guarantee of flying queens with the right paternal families.

Found 5 beekeepers in Kaliningrad supporting this idea, one of them often visits the apiaries of Gembala, Vilde, Lots and other famous beekeepers.

Relations have been established with queens from Poland, contacts with queen breeding nurseries.

The club of beekeepers is invited to participate in this item program. It is also proposed to purchase any lines of Polish queens and the German Institute of Celle.

Report of the head of the club, on the work of the club of beekeepers of the Kostroma region for 2015-2016

The club operates from November to March. 5 meetings per year are organized on various topics. Various issues were discussed:

• On the creation of a public regional organization of beekeepers in the Kostroma region.
• By checking apiaries for diseases.
• Discussion and formation of trade rules at honey fairs.
• Creation and discussion of the Charter
• Tribal work.
• Wintering of bees, preparation for winter and other, other topics

Members of the club participated in various fairs, as well as in various meetings with the administration of the city and region. Lists all activities for the trade in bee products.

All organizational fees have been used in full.

The story about visiting the fair "Golden Autumn" in Moscow and about the round table "Beekeeping in Russia and its prospects"

The beekeeper Valery Anatolyevich spoke. He thanked the club for the trust placed in him as a representative from the Kostroma region at this event.

The round table was held at the Ministry of Agriculture at VDNKh.

“When you listen to all these professors, ministers, you get the impression that everything is so good with bees, wonderful, we have no problems, everything is subsidized, everything develops, everything is decided at the highest level. When the speech of all the ministers ended, the beekeepers began to speak, and then it became clear how things are with us with beekeeping in reality. We have practically no subsidies in Russia, all bees are equated to cattle, we do not have a unit of measurement like bees. Suitable according to the principle of how many heads of livestock, they translate into the number of families.

Today we do not even have a law on beekeeping. And while it is not, we have no progress in the near future"

I really liked the speech of the chairman of the beekeeping society from Ryazan, there was a very bright speech, right after the professors. He said: “Here you are professors, you said that everything is fine with us, but tell me where is our Central Russian bee? Where is she? We want to work with the Central Russian bee. Why don't you select, why is she so spiteful with us? Why do we smuggle breeding queens from abroad? We pull this bee from Germany, Poland, but we practically don’t have our own bee.”

If a beekeeper works with two to five families of local bees, then you can still work. But if you work on an industrial basis, then this is unrealistic. The whole west has been working for a long time, holding 2000-3000 families. If the West goes for all subsidies, then we don't have it. Everything comes from your own pocket, what you have worked out, sold, and all your personal problems, in our country the government does not care about beekeeping.

Valery Anatolyevich talked with the director of Apimondia.

“Tell me how it all started for you? Why are you such a powerful world organization now? He replied that everything is very simple: “Guys unite, go to the deputies, and only through the government will you achieve something. By yourself, on your own, you will not achieve anything "

To do something, you need a huge investment. With our bees, we will not be able to make any serious investments.

For example, a honey processing plant, where investments in equipment amount to tens of millions and there is no end to investments. Anything you don't touch needs its own lab.

Valery Anatolyevich spoke positively about the taste qualities of Kostroma honey, its quality was recognized by the research of a special laboratory, analyzes were carried out on 136 positions.

Other matters

An invitation was issued on November 11, 2016, from the Department of Agro-Industrial Complex, to 6 beekeepers to participate in the solemn meeting dedicated to the Day of the Agricultural Worker. This meeting will be held with KSAA.

There was discussion of the merits and demerits of the Carpathian, and a possible return to the local population of bees, as more viable and resistant to diseases.

The purpose of this project is the production of environmentally friendly beekeeping products based on breeding bee colonies. Entrepreneurial activity is aimed at meeting the consumer demand of the population.

Main activity:

• breeding bee colonies;
• obtaining bee products.

The total cost of the project is 60,000 rubles.

Net profit for 1 year - 21,290 rubles, for 2 years - 203,999 rubles.

Profitability of sales of the first year - 37%.

Profitability of sales of the second year - 53%.

Payback period of the project: 2.8 years.

2. Description of the business, product or service

Beekeeping is one of the oldest human occupations. The researchers found that in Rus' they were engaged in it as early as the 11th century. In the beginning, people used honey only for food, then for treatment. Later, wax was also used. Both products are currently the most important raw materials for the food, pharmaceutical and radio-electronic industries. After the medicinal properties of insect venom were discovered and a way to obtain it in its pure form was found, people began to show even more interest in bees.

An apiary is a production unit of a bee farm or a beekeeping farm, an apiary area where beehives with bee families, apiary buildings and beekeeping facilities are located. Of great importance are good access roads, the availability of drinking springs, as well as the microclimate characteristic of the natural habitat of bees. The apiary is located near the arrays of honey plants, on a dry, level place with a slight slope for the flow of melt and rainwater, well protected from winds and sun by trees and shrubs. You can not place an apiary near large rivers and lakes, especially if there are arrays of honey plants on the opposite side of the river or lake. The apiary should not be located near traffic roads, cattle yards, public places, enterprises that process sugary substances, as well as on flights (in places where bees fly over other apiaries on their way to honey plants). It is very important to place apiaries within a radius of reliable spatial isolation (5-7 km). This will enable the beekeeper (in the event that there are no contagious diseases in the apiaries) to use common feeders.

Hives in the apiary are placed at the rate of 20-40 m2 per bee colony; arrange them in rows in a checkerboard pattern - at a distance of 6 m from one another and at least 4 m between the rows, or in groups of 3-5 hives, or in pairs, but with tapholes in different directions. They install hives on stands or pegs with a slight slope forward so that rainwater does not flow into the entrances. In apiaries of the backyard type, the hives are placed more compactly. Thus, up to 15 bee families can be located in the pavilion at the same time on a plot of 3 × 5 m.

It has been established that it takes 834 minutes to serve one bee colony for one year. It takes 5-6 hours to serve 10 bee families for one week in the spring-summer period. The practice of beekeepers shows that high honey yields can be achieved if strong bee colonies are maintained. A strong family more easily endures adverse weather conditions, wintering, and is more resistant to diseases. A strong family raises offspring that are better in quality, more hardy. Since large groups of bees in a strong colony are in different physiological states, it reacts more subtly to changes in the external environment and uses bribes better. And, as a result, it collects more honey and releases more wax, pollinates agricultural crops better.

Strong colonies are the result of the beekeeper's year-round work. It is possible to have full-fledged bee colonies in the spring only if you help them get out of wintering without loss, vital (for this, first of all, you need to properly prepare the bees for living in winter conditions and organize their wintering). In the spring-summer period, it is necessary to create all the conditions for them to grow strong, full-fledged, well-developed offspring, regularly throughout the season to provide them with a stable and plentiful bribe, and maintain a working condition in families.

A huge shortage of honey is obtained in apiaries due to the fact that the roaming of apiaries is little used for honey plants. The value of this event has long been known, its application gives a huge effect. In order to get a lot of honey and wax from bee colonies, it is necessary, among other things, to provide the bees with an appropriate pasture, which would enable them to collect enough nectar. If there is no good pasture, then no matter how experienced the beekeeper is and no matter how strong the bee families are, the bees will not bring much nectar into the hive - they will have nowhere to take it. Beekeepers should make plans in advance for bee migrations to pollinate crops and use honey lands. Thoroughly prepare for the migration with bees, starting from early spring, will help the flowering calendar of honey plants on those lands where it is planned to transport bees to collect nectar. All this, in turn, will help to accurately determine the most appropriate time for swarming and growing bees in order to use them as productively as possible on the main flow. Apiary roaming for honey plants can be organized by every beekeeper, and the benefits of apiary roaming are very great: a roaming apiary always gives more honey than apiaries that stay at one point all season long.

The activity is divided into the following stages:

• equip an apiary for 8 bee colonies;
• for the season 8 bee colonies will give 280 kilograms of products in the form of honey;
• it is also planned to receive related products - propolis, wax, pollen.
• bring the apiary for the 2nd season to 53 bee colonies.

With a successful honey plant, it is planned to receive an average of 35 kg of honey per season from each bee colony. In the 1st year of the activity, it is planned to sell honey from 8 bee colonies with a total weight of 280 kg. The average price for 1 kg of honey produced by me is 200 rubles.

Product Description

Bee honey is a food product, which is a nectar partially digested in the goiter of a honey bee. Honey contains 13-20% water, 75-80% carbohydrates (glucose, fructose, sucrose), vitamins B1, B2, B6, E, K, C, provitamin A-carotene, folic acid. The special taste and aroma of honey, along with its usefulness, makes many people prefer honey to all other sweeteners.

Commercial types of honey

By commercial appearance, honey is divided into centrifugal and honeycomb. Centrifugal honey is obtained by pumping it out of honeycomb cells using a honey extractor.

Comb honey - honey not extracted from wax combs, sold in frames or small rectangular cutouts. Inside the honeycomb, honey can be both liquid and shrunken. Trade in comb honey in our country has a smaller turnover, this is due to:

• higher price of such honey per kilogram;
• inconvenience of transportation;
• loss of a valuable product - wax;
• the difficulty of obtaining marketable comb honey.

High-quality comb honey should have a solid seal (all cells are sealed with wax caps completely). White or light yellow color should be not only a seal of honey, but also the honeycomb itself.

Types of honey by consistency

The consistency of centrifugal honey can be liquid or crystallized ("shrunken"). Liquid honey is the normal state of fresh honey after being pumped out of the combs (usually honey from the current beekeeping season). Liquid honey has different degrees of density (viscosity). The viscosity of honey depends on whether it contains more or less water and partly on the temperature of the surrounding air. Liquid honey can also be obtained by heating crystallized honey, while some of the beneficial properties of honey may be lost. Too liquid honey may indicate insufficient aging in honeycombs, it is called "immature".

Crystallized ("shrunken") honey is formed naturally from liquid honey with temperature fluctuations. Settled honey does not lose its properties as a result of crystallization. In shrunken honey, depending on the size of the crystals, coarse-grained, fine-grained and fat-like cages are distinguished. In coarse-grained honey, aggregates of sugar crystals are more than 0.5 mm in diameter, in fine-grained honey - less than 0.5 mm, but are still visible to the naked eye.

Types of honey by color, transparency, taste and smell

By color, honey is divided into light and dark with numerous transitional shades from white to reddish brown. The color of honey depends on the plants from whose nectar honey is obtained: relatively light honey is obtained from the inflorescences of linden, sunflower, acacia, etc., relatively dark - from buckwheat, milkweed, etc.

The transparency of liquid honey depends, first of all, on the amount of pollen that got into the honey during pumping. Honey can also become cloudy as a result of the process of its crystallization that has begun. Honey collected by bees from one particular plant usually has its own characteristic taste and aroma. To obtain a popular color and aroma, different types of honey can be mixed during pre-sale preparation.

Beeswax is a product of the vital activity of bees, a complex organic compound. Beeswax is secreted by special glands of honey bees, from which bees build honeycombs. It is a white to yellow-brown solid with a characteristic honey smell. At a temperature of 35 °C, it becomes plastic. The composition of the wax includes about 50 different chemical compounds, among them esters (up to 75%), saturated hydrocarbons (11-17%), free fatty acids (13-15%), water - up to 2.5%. Beeswax has strong bactericidal properties. It is used for the production of pharmaceuticals, in the treatment of wounds, burns, ulcers, inflammation of the skin and mucous membranes.

Propolis - bee glue, bond - a dark resinous substance produced by bees to cover cracks and isolate foreign objects in the hive. Propolis is not just a resin of plants that is collected by bees, insects modify with their enzymes the sticky substances collected from the spring buds of trees (poplar, alder, birch, etc.). Beekeepers collect propolis with special gratings, or simply scrape it off frames and walls. 50–150 g of propolis are harvested from each hive in a season. Some beekeepers melt the collected propolis in a water bath, separating it from mechanical impurities; while it almost completely retains its properties. Propolis contains more than 50 organic components and mineral elements (potassium, calcium, phosphorus, sodium, magnesium, sulfur, chlorine, aluminum, vanadium, iron, manganese, zinc, copper, silicon, strontium, selenium, zirconium, mercury, fluorine, antimony, cobalt, etc., in increased quantities - zinc and manganese), about 10 vital vitamins, including B1, B2, B6, Vitamin A, E, nicotinic, pantothenic acids, etc., 17 amino acids (asparagine, glutamine, tryptophan , phenylalanine, leucine, cystine, methionine, valine, glycocol, histidine, arginine, proline, tyrosine, threonine, alanine, lilysine).

3. Sales and marketing

4. Production plan

The total cost of the project is 60,000 rubles, of which:

• subsidy (financial assistance) for the implementation of a business project provided by the employment center - 58,000 rubles;
• own funds - 2000 rubles.

With funds received from the Employment Center, the necessary equipment, materials are purchased and 8 beehives are made.

For the production of bee honey, it is planned to purchase:

Necessary equipment, materials

In the second year, it is planned to increase the number of bee colonies to 53.

Reproduction scheme for an apiary of 3-10 bee colonies

The table serves as a guide for bee breeding activities, determines the average indicators for a normal average apiary. The block diagram of the accelerated reproduction of bee colonies gives a more accurate visual representation of this method.

Structural scheme of accelerated reproduction of bee colonies

Accelerated reproduction is based on the principle of division of bee colonies and participation in reproduction of an increasing number of queens. Young queens lay eggs for quite a long time. To prolong the laying period and entrain the brood area of ​​the nest, it is necessary to keep the colonies compressed, 8-9 mm. According to the structural diagram, it is clear that the beekeeper has the opportunity to make the third division - the creation of additional, new young families. For this, prefabricated layers of 3-4 families with fetal queens are created. From each young family, one frame with printed brood is selected, a young queen is planted. These families in the second half of August will have to substitute honey fodder frames at the expense of the main families, on average 3-4 frames and give additional feeding - 7-8 liters of syrup for each. As a rule, young queens overwinter very well.

5. Organizational structure

Entrepreneurial activity is registered with the tax authorities as an individual entrepreneur. The cost of registration for obtaining a certificate of state registration as an individual entrepreneur is 800 rubles.

Personnel: At the beginning of the activity, it is planned to manage with a small number of personnel. The entrepreneur can take over the main work. During the removal of the apiary for roaming, it is planned to hire an additional 4 workers. Attracting hired workers in the amount of 2 people is planned for the time of the roaming of the apiary.

6. Financial plan

Job specifics: Beekeeping is seasonal. The beekeeping season runs from April to October. From mid-June to August inclusive, the honey collection season continues.

Income plan

The object of taxation is income reduced by the amount of expenses (Article 346.4 of the Tax Code of the Russian Federation), the tax rate is 15%. From the moment of registration, it is necessary to pay contributions to the PFR for pension insurance and to the FFOMS for medical insurance - 23,153.33 rubles. Of this amount, a part must be transferred to the PFR - 19,356.48 rubles, and the rest to the FFOMS - 3,796.85 rubles.

Spending plan

• Prospects for the honey market
• Recruitment
• Marketing and sales
• Business risks
• apiary financial plan
• Breeding technology
  • • • Similar business ideas:

Business plan for the organization of beekeeping on a leased land plot in the amount of at least 150 bee colonies.

Beekeeping - how much you need to invest for profitability

According to preliminary calculations, about 1,845,000 rubles will be required to organize a beekeeping farm for 150 hives:

• Bee families - 525,000 rubles.
• Apiary equipment (beehive, honey extractor, smoker, feeders, protective clothing, etc.) - 700,000 rubles.
• Construction of a room for storing honey and wintering bees - 400,000 rubles.
• Packing material (container) - 30,000 rubles.
• Vet. drugs - 10,000 rubles.
• Registration of a business, the cost of obtaining a land plot - 50,000 rubles.
• Other expenses - 30,000 rubles.
• Reserve capital - 100,000 rubles.

A step-by-step plan for starting a beekeeping business

To open an apiary, you must perform the following sequential steps:

1. Find investments to start a business
2. Choose a suitable land plot in the category "agricultural land"
3. Register a sole proprietorship
4. Rent a land plot
5. Register an apiary with the veterinary service
6. Buy equipment and bee colonies
7. Build a room for storing honey and wintering bees
8. Hire staff
9. Start searching for honey buyers, launch apiary advertising

Prospects for the honey market

According to the National Union of Beekeepers, the capacity of the honey market in Russia is almost 1 million tons per year. While production volumes hardly reach 150 thousand tons per year. It turns out that our beekeepers produce six times less than the amount that the population of the country can eat. It becomes clear that the market is still far from being saturated and a well-organized bee farm will bring profit to its owner. Fortunately, you can always find the sale of honey, especially being in close proximity to a large city.

Lease of land for beekeeping

The land plot for the placement of the apiary will be selected based on the calculation of 35 sq. meters per hive. Thus, for 150 hives, you will need to rent a plot of at least 5250 sq. m or 0.5 ha. The following principles will also be observed when selecting a site:

1. The length of the working route of the bees should be no more than 2 km.
2. The site will be located in a lowland so that the bees returning from the honey collection would fly downhill.
3. Preference will be given to areas near buckwheat, clover, sunflower and linden plantations.

According to the business plan, it is planned to lease a land plot as part of agricultural land owned by the local municipal authority. Renting such a plot will not be difficult. Even taking into account the terms of obtaining the contract (about 5 - 8 months, taking into account all procedures) and the obligatory holding of an auction (if another applicant appears for the site). The contract is planned to be concluded for a period of 49 years, with the possibility of registration in the property in three years. The amount of the rent will be 390 rubles. in year.

What equipment is needed for apiary

As the main equipment, vertical wooden beehives with frames 435x300 mm will be purchased. Buying one hive will cost 3100 rubles. In addition to the hives, you will need to purchase: portable boxes for frames, protective clothing and a face net, a honey extractor, a smoker, cages for keeping queen cells, feeders for autumn and winter feeding, a table for unpacking honeycombs, a wax melter, a sieve for filtering honey. In addition, it is planned to build fences for the apiary, as well as the construction of a wintering facility. There will also be a warehouse for inventory, a room for packaging and storage of marketable honey. The floor area will be 85 square meters. In total, about 1.1 million rubles will be spent at this stage. A few words should be said about bee colonies. We will purchase bees of Central European dark breed. These bees tolerate the harsh Russian winters well and are quite resistant to diseases. The purchase of one bee colony will take an average of 3500 rubles. The total costs at this stage will amount to 525,000 rubles.

Recruitment

To care for the apiary, two beekeepers will be hired, whose duties will include seasonal care for bees, collecting honey and wax, selecting frames with honey from the hives and pumping them out at the honey extractor, carrying out breeding work in the apiary, observing sanitary and hygienic rules in the apiary and etc. The salary of beekeepers will be 25 thousand rubles. per month (per person). To guard the apiary, three guards will be hired with a salary of 8,000 rubles a month. In addition, it is planned to employ a sales manager, whose responsibilities will include searching for sales channels for products, meeting with potential customers, concluding contracts, selling honey. The remuneration of the manager will be the sum of the salary + a percentage of the proceeds.

What taxation system to choose for beekeeping

As an organizational form, it is planned to register individual entrepreneurship with the local tax service. The most suitable taxation system for beekeeping is UAT (unified agricultural tax), 6% of the organization's profit. At the same stage, the apiary will be registered with the local veterinary service. According to the results of the commission, an apiary passport will be obtained, which is necessary for the sale of finished honey and other beekeeping products.

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Marketing and sales

According to the business plan, the output of honey from one hive will be 40 kg per season (with strict adherence to technology). Thus, from 150 hives we will get 6000 kg of marketable honey. Honey is planned to be sold at an average of 200 rubles per kg. Packing will be carried out both in large containers (in cube containers of 30-33 kg) and in small containers of 1-3 kg. In addition to honey, it is planned to make money on the sale of other bee products: bee bread, wax, pollen and propolis. It is expected that this will bring another 25% to the total revenue. Thus, the potential revenue of the apiary for the season will be 1.5 million rubles (1.2 million from the sale of honey and 300 thousand rubles from the sale of other products). Planned distribution channels for products and methods of advertising:

• City fairs;
• Processing plants, candy factories;
• Wholesale dealers;
• Realization to private specialized shops (honey shops);
• Internet - bulletin boards, specialized forums, Internet portals.

The marketing of products is facilitated by the fact that the apiary will be located 50 km from a large city with a population of 1.2 million people.

Business risks

In the course of conducting a beekeeping business, the following risks may arise:

• Decrease in wholesale prices for honey due to high competition
• Small volumes of honey collection by bees due to bad weather conditions
• Lack of government support for the industry
• Raising the cost of raw materials and materials.

apiary financial plan

Let's proceed to the calculation of the main indicators of the economic efficiency of the business. The annual business plan costs will include:

Total - 921,000 rubles.

How much can you earn from beekeeping

Thus, the net profit at the end of the year will be 591,166 rubles. The profitability of the apiary is 67.8%. The payback of the initial investment will come after 38 months of operation of the farm. However, one should take into account the fact that the calculations were made taking into account the wholesale price of 200 rubles/kg. (in fact, the price may be either lower or higher than declared), as well as taking into account the 100% sale of all manufactured products (in fact, not all volumes may be sold, there may be delays in settlements with buyers).

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Which OKVED to indicate when registering a business

For beekeeping, there is a special OKVED, which must be indicated when registering your business: OKVED - 01.25.1. or OKVED 01.04.

What documents are needed to open an apiary

The beekeeper must have the appropriate documents for breeding bees and selling products on the market. Their list is even larger than that of an ordinary honey seller and consists of the following items:

• Veterinary passport of the apiary. The most important of the beekeeper's documents, which indicates the location of the apiary and basic information about the veterinary and sanitary condition, laboratory samples and studies, as well as preventive disinfection measures.
• Help with the analysis of honey produced. It contains information about the entrepreneur, as well as the main properties of honey, such as its acidity, diastase number, etc.
• Veterinary opinion. It is intended for the sale of honey and other types of beekeeping products.
• Help with information about the number of farmsteads of the apiary. Must be obtained from local veterinarian.

Which taxation system to choose for business registration

By breeding bees and producing honey, you can arrange your business as a personal subsidiary plot. In this case, you are exempt from paying taxes by selling honey through ads, at a fair, or to friends and relatives. If you want to sell your products in the markets, through retail outlets and rented stores, you will need to issue an IP. In this case, you will need to pay taxes, for example, a single tax on imputed income.

Do I need permission to open

You do not need permits to open your own apiary. If you are going to sell honey on the market, then it is obligatory to register it with the administration of a rural settlement in your area.

Ecological and phenological observations during the maintenance of bee colonies in Moscow and adjacent regions made it possible to summarize many years of experience and create a visual practical guide - a plan-calendar for caring for bees. Most beekeepers, especially young beekeepers, have difficulty in determining the timing of work in the apiary, which determines the state of bee colonies, their productivity and survival. The proposed tablet not only suggests the timing of the work, depending on the conditions prevailing in the coming season, but also plans, organizes, and controls the work of the beekeeper.

For other climatic zones, such tables can be compiled by experienced beekeepers based on local ecological and phenological observations for a period of at least 10–15 years.

The tablet consists of three discs rotating relative to each other and an arrow.

The data of phenological observations are concentrated on the small disk: the timing of the flowering of honey plants, the associated periods of honey collection and the periods without crops, characteristic of Moscow and adjacent regions (according to the data of phenologist V.I. Dolgoshov). The middle disk shows the days and months of the active period of life of bee colonies and the months of the wintering period of bees. A large disk contains a list of operations for the care and maintenance of bee colonies.

With the help of a Plexiglas arrow with a radial line printed on it, the terms and types of work on the maintenance of bee colonies are linked with the phenological calendar of flowering of honey plants in specific weather conditions (early or late spring).

When working with a tablet, you need to combine the arrow with the line on the small disk with the inscription "The beginning of the flowering of the hazel" (or coltsfoot, where the hazel does not grow). Then, rotating the small disk with the arrow fixed on it, set the latter to the day and month indicated on the middle disk and corresponding to the flowering period of the hazel near your apiary. After that, return the middle disk with the small disk fixed on it and the arrow until the point of the arrow is aligned with the line located on the large disk and indicating the start of work on caring for bee colonies. After performing these operations with the tablet, all the terms of work in the apiary will be linked to the flowering calendar of honey plants in the current season, that is, a work plan will be drawn up for the entire upcoming beekeeping season.

The arrow can be sequentially moved relative to the fixed disks to the beginning of the next work in order to facilitate their planning and control over them.

I want to give some clarifications to the family care work indicated on the tablet. For example, stimulation of oviposition. This includes shrinking and warming the nest in early spring and providing room for the queen to work by setting up good combs with bee cells; providing honey and bee bread in sufficient quantities; printout of honey combs removed from brood; timely expansion of the nest; provision of supporting honey collection with the help of roaming or distribution of stimulating top dressing (honey satiety, honey-pepper mixtures, biostimulating substances, sugar syrup, etc.); accommodation of two families in one hive; updating the nest by replacing old combs with newly built ones on foundation, etc. The concept of "comb building stimulation" includes expanding the nest with foundation frames, providing honey and bee bread and supporting honey collection (roaming or stimulating top dressing in a free period, etc.). In turn, this is an effective anti-swarm technique.