Study on setting up a beekeeping farm and on valorisation of the products obtained - sustainable business in the rural area of Gorj County.

The beekeeping farm is a farm for breeding bees carried out in order to obtain apiculture products (honey, pollen, propolis, wax, royal jelly and bee venom). The bee harvesting is regulated in Romania by the Law on beekeeping No. 383/2013 and it is a technological link of the beekeeping production activity, in which the beekeeper transports and temporarily places the bee families, at the areas suitable for honey production in agricultural or forestry fund. To exploit the productive potential of the bee families, specific work is needed to ensure their optimal development during the main harvest period. The paper presents a study on setting up a beekeeping or apiary farm in a rural area in the Gorj County as a business idea that contributes to rural development and to diversification of the entrepreneur's income. The investment expenses are of 154.200 lei and the net income in the first year of production is of 92.250 lei, so that under favourable weather conditions to achieve 4 harvests per year, the depreciation of the investment costs and getting profit is made from the second year of production. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]