The Status of Beekeeping for Honey Production in Turkey

This study was conducted to investigate present status of beekeeping and honey production levels per colony in Turkey. Data was available by questionnaire with randomly selected from 38 different city beekeeper. Survey was completed to find out the present status of beekeeping administration and education of beekeeper, Turkey one the most is suitable country for beekeeping with respect to different climate, geographic and vegetation. But honey production level per colony is lower than the expectation in Turkey. In this research, data was collected about some factors (bee race, education, administration capacity, techniques and technology, region differences and migration of beekeeping) which are assumed to having important effects on honey production and examine whether these factors were affected on production levels per colony or not.