Open AccessBeekeeping sector as a form of enterprise family history: analysis socio-economic
Author(s) -
Andriy Popovych
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
kwartalnik nauk o przedsiębiorstwie
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2719-3276
pISSN - 1896-656X
DOI - 10.5604/01.3001.0013.6508
Subject(s) - beekeeping , agriculture , apiary , european union , agricultural science , business , socioeconomic status , family farm , economic growth , production (economics) , geography , agricultural economics , economics , sociology , ecology , economic policy , population , environmental science , demography , archaeology , biology , macroeconomics
The beekeeping sector in the EU is small compared to other agricultural sectors, but necessary to pollinate most crops. In the European Union and Ukraine, the majority of beekeepers are small family farms. The family farm is an important institution of Western European agriculture and an important element of rural social life. The purpose ofthis article is to examine a particular type of agricultural enterprise and the type ofactivity that is beekeeping and to identify its specific features, which makes it possibleto classify it as a family enterprise. The socio-economic analysis of apiculture is carried out from the perspective of two approaches. The first approach means meeting formal criteria for family farming. The second approach takes into account the most common practice in individual beekeeping. The apiary in terms of form and content corresponds to the definitionof a family farm. The study suggests that the formulation and a series of theoreticaland practical rules regarding family farming has been confirmed in the analysis of an individual beekeeping farm as a small form of agricultural production.