The Economic Aspects of Honey Production

Honey production is nowadays very popular among most of EU countries and broader. Furthermore, honey is a nearly complete and a unique food, which can only be produced by bees. In this paper we firstly provide a theoretical explanation of market supply and production process based on the analysis of domestic and foreign literature available and then we explore the market situation of the apiculture sector, more precisely, honey production in the EU from the economic aspects. The overall situation regarding EU production tends to increases with each passing day, and in the last few decades, the production of honey also. In this Bachelor thesis, we examine how the honey production within EU countries is affected by the economic crisis, various diseases and threats as well as technological advances and the importance of certain developed and developing EU countries. The EU is aware of significance of honey production and for that purpose focuses on the implementation of projects and programs. We believe that the work will be beneficial for the beekeeping public as it summarize the situation of honey production and confronts generally known hypothesis with reality.