This research was conducted in some apiaries that Royal Jelly produce at Lattakia
Governorate, which is one of the most important areas of beekeeping in Syria. This
research aimed to study the investment requirements, and calculate the annual produ
ction
costs, farm income indicators, and other economic indicators.
In this research was used the descriptive economic analysis, data were collected of 8
apiaries, according to a form designed for this purpose, data were analyzed using
appropriate statistical programs.
Results showed the annual mean of royal jelly production costs, Returns, and profits
in natural and additive feeding at Lattakia Governorate were 46865.5 Syrian pounds\hive,
112700 Syrian pounds\hive, 65834, Syrian pounds\hive, respectively, While net production
costs, and net profits amounted to 42624.2 Syrian pounds\hive, and 8.57895 Syrian
pounds\hive, respectively, and net relative income 140.50 %, also rent coefficient in
relation to production costs and capital were 169.86 %, 115.16 %, respectively, and
profitability coefficient in relation to production costs and capital were 140.48 %, 95.24 %,
respectively, while economic efficiency, and the Payback period were 2.40, 1.05 year,
respectively.
This study has been conducted on Syrian coastal area in 2013 season, aimed to
analyze the cost of honey production and Farm income `at the Apiaries level, in addition to
measure its net returns and economic efficiency. A field questioner was applie
d to obtain
elementary data of a random sample consisted of (304) of Apiary units.
The results show that beekeeping is one of the economically viable agricultural
projects, where most of the apiaries in the sample were able to achieve a positive net return
as much, on average, about (405 834) SP / promiscuous, while its value was estimated at
the hive level by about (7120) SP. It was found that the majority of apiaries in the study
sample (87.8%) were able to achieve positive earnings, While the ratio (12.2%) exposed of
the loss, and realized negative revenues .
The results of the investment evaluation and financial analysis showed to the
economic efficiency of the apiaries , reaching gross margin of the hive (11237.5) SP/year,
and ratio of costs to revenue (62.9%), the profit ratio to total costs (59%), and general
economic efficiency (1.59 ), and the Payback period (1.69) years.