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In addition, toxic honey (the Turks call the resulting honey “Deli bal=Crazy honey”, production derived in September and October from the Rhododendron ponticum that takes place in the northern mountains areas in Turkey. This area stretches from east to west parallel to the Black Sea and is bordered upon the east by the Central Anatolia. Migratory Beekeeping Migratory beekeeping style is very common and predominates in Turkey. This means that the hives have to be moved from one place to another searching for ultimate good quality honey in reasonable quantities. Migratory beekeeping, in which beekeepers move from north to south and from east to west following the blooming of honey plants, is not so popular at present because of the several reasons: aging of beekeepers, decreasing honey plants and large scale beekeepers. The honey bee colonies are transferred in spring to the citrus groves and thyme areas, in June to the fir forests, in summer to the cotton, clover and sunflowers plants and in August, September and October to the vast pine forests in the country generally. Professional beekeepers have about 100-400 bee colonies, sometimes up to 1000. They transport their hives extensively during the year; up to distances of 2000-4000 km. Eighty percentage of total migratory beekeepers of Turkey are from Ordu, a Black Sean city. As a consequence, the migratory beekeeping technique is improving. But, the genetic structure of the Turkish bee population is becoming homogenized and genetic variation is getting lost. Honeybee Products Although the main commodities are honey, beeswax, pollen, propolis, royal jelly, bee venom, queen and package, bees can also be produced from beekeeping activities. Beekeeping and its all products has important role in history of Turkish society and trade life. Thus almost all of bee products are useful to humans. Honey is the most important product of the beekeeping sector of Turkey. Seventy percentages of total honey production of Turkey is sold as comb and 30 percentages as extracted. According to the statistics of the State Statistical Institute of Turkey (DIE), honey production was 67259 tons in 1999. Although the honey yield increases every year steadily, this increase is not satisfactory (Table 2). Turkey has only 5.7% of world honey product. One of the main reasons for the low honey yield is the insufficient queen bee production in the country. Table 2. Honey production in Turkey Tablica 2. Proizvodnja meda u Turskoj Years Godine Honey production (tons) Proizvodnja meda (t) Index Indeks 1935=100 Average production kg / hive Prosječna proizvodnja (kg/ košnici) Index Indeks 1935=100 1935 4338 100.00 2.29 100.00 1945 3671 84.62 3.57 155.90 1955 7111 163.92 5.55 242.36 1965 10320 237.90 6.37 278.17 1975 21250 489.86 10.77 470.31 1985 35840 826.19 13.86 605.24 1995 68620 1581.83 17.52 756.07 1999 67259 1550.46 15.56 679.48 Source: Statistical Indicators. State Statistical Institute of Turkey (DIE), Ankara, 2000 Izvor: Statistički pokazatelij. Državni statistički instıtut Turske (DIE), Ankara, 2000. The annual honey production is estimated to be around 15.6 kg per colony, although values of about 35-40 kg per colony are usual for professional beekeepers. Eighty percent of total honey of Turkey is produced by migratory beekeepers. 4
While product quality usually differs among producers, there is general tendency of treating the products from the same areas as having the same quality. Generally, the marketability of products is mostly limited to the retail, domestic market and the international trade tends to be restricted of honey. Prices of all honeybee products are far the most important factor in competition; but capital investment is not so active in the beekeeping sector. Turkey’s pine honey production is very famous in the world. More than 90% of domestic production of pine honey was sold via exports, mostly those to European and Middle East countries every year. Exportation of honey of Turkey was nearly 5000 tons last years. This brought approximately $ 10 million gain being the most important trade factor of our country. The value of honey export is variable every year (Table 3). Table 3. Honey Export of Turkey Tablica 3. Izvoz meda u Turskoj Year Godina Honey export (tons) Izvoz meda (t) Index Indeks 1936=100 Export value (1000 $) Izvozna vrijednost (1000 $) Index Indeks 1963=100 1963 4 100.00 3 100.00 1965 2 50.00 1 33.33 1975 54 1350.00 69 2300.00 1985 2176 54400.00 4050 135000.00 1995 2934 73350.00 6759 225300.00 1999 5306 132650.00 9996 333200.00 Source: Honey Export of Turkey. www. fao.org. Izvor: Izvoz meda Turske. www. fao.org. The domestic output of beeswax is about 4073 tons. According to the statistics of the State Statistical Institute of Turkey (DIE), the wax production of the different years is given in Table 4. Table 4. Wax production in Turkey Tablica 4. Proizvodnja voska u Turskoj Years Godine Wax production (tons) Proizvodnja vosak (ton) Index Indeks 1936=100 Average production kg / hive Prosječna proizvodnja kg/ košnici Index Indeks 1936=100 1935 602 100.00 0.32 100.00 1945 412 68.44 0.40 125.00 1955 844 140.20 0.66 206.25 1965 1.144 190.03 0.71 221.88 1975 1.712 284.39 0.87 271.88 1985 2.196 364.78 0.85 265.63 1995 3.735 620.43 0.95 296.88 1999 4.073 675.58 0.94 293.75 Source: Statistical Indicators. State Statistical Institute of Turkey (DIE), Ankara, 2000 Izvor: Statistički pokazatelij. Državni statistički instıtut Turske (DIE), Ankara, 2000. The DIE statistics show that about 4073 tons of wax were produced in Turkey and it can be supposed that almost all of the raw materials were sold on the market used for honey comb production. Other bee products of Turkey (pollen, royal jelly, bee venom and propolis) have important role in our beekeeping industry. Trading amount of honeybee colonies of Turkey are nearly 40000-50000 units annually. According to the annually statistics of the ministry of Agriculture of Turkey, the value of honey production was $ 150 million, producing queens and bees for sale to other beekeepers $ 36 million and other bee products (pollen, propolis and royal jelly) $ 2.9 million in 1999. Moreover, bees pollinate the flowering plants while collecting nectar and pollen thus increase the quality and quantity of cultivated crop plants enabling the wild flowers and many plants to survive. 5
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