Current Situation, Problems and Solutions for Beekeeping Sector in Turkey

The beekeeping becomes a sector, which is developing and of which the economic return and product diversity are increasing with each passing day in the world and Turkey. The beehive number and honey production has increasing every passing year but a decrease has been experienced in productivity. There are many technical and economic problems in beekeeping sector in Turkey, especially the low productivity. It is aimed by detecting the current situation and problems in beekeeping sector in Turkey via this study at offering solutions for the primary problems. The support policies in the beekeeping sector in Turkey should have the quality to increase the competitive capacity in foreign trade and also the productivity in production. In order to increase the incomes of the beekeeping enterprises, its essential to provide the actual technical and financial support, product diversity to the enterprises and to activate the cooperatives for marketing