Visión actual de la apicultura en España
- Vanessa Alviz Martín 1
- Lydia Calleja Bueno 1
- María Pereira Martín 1
- Luis Ruiz Abad 1
- Felipe José Calahorra Fernández 1
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Universidad Complutense de Madrid
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ISSN: 1988-2688
Year of publication: 2009
Volume: 3
Issue: 2
Pages: 139-148
Type: Article
More publications in: Revista complutense de ciencias veterinarias
Abstract
The beekeeping is a farming activity orientated to the young of bees in order to obtain benefits derived from the sale of apicultural products and the pollinating action on the cultivates. It’s a sector distributed mainly in Castilla and Leon with 16% of the total of operations, of which the majority is nonprofessional and permanent. They are followed in importance by Galicia with 14.3% of operations, and Andalucia with 13% where the non professional beehives with seasonal migrations are similar. Within the communitarian perspective, Spain occupies the first place in the census with the 17.1% of the total of beehives of Europe, with an exporting volume of 27,9%; the main destinies are France and Germany. In the extracommunitarian plane, Spain imports honey from China and Argentina occupying the fifth place (3.4%) of the imports at world-wide level. Despite the level of Spanish self-supplying it reaches a 88.2%.