Economic evaluation of the honey yield from four forest tree species and the future prospect of the forest beekeeping in Sudan

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2020-06

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The present study is an investigation into beekeeping activity values as land use types practiced in Sudanese forests. The main objectives of the study are to estimate honey yield produced per unit area from four tree species, namely: Acacia seyal, A. nilotica, Ziziphus spina-Christi and Eucalyptus spp. Furthermore, the study aims at estimating its economic value and financial return (US/hectare)usingReturnOnInvestment(ROI)asadecisioncriterion.Inaddition,thestudyaimsatidentifyingtheobstaclesandconstraintswhichthisactivityfaces.Thedatawerecollectedthroughinterviewswith96beekeepersinsixselectedproductionareasandasurveyofmarketrelateddata.Astructuredquestionnairewasused,andadescriptiveandcomparativeanalysiscarriedout.Theresultsindicatedthattheaverageannualyieldofhoney/beehivesis13kg,rangingbetween10and16kg,andA.seyalshowedthehighestproductivity.Furthermore,theresultsshowedthat15beecolonies/hectareismoresuitablewithareturnrateof780US/hectare annual income. This result indicates that the productivity of honey yield from forest trees has a considerable economic value and financial return. Thus, these results could be a great incentive to encourage local communities to integrate forest management.

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© The Author(s) 2019. This article is published with open access at Springerlink.com and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ . The Version of Scholarly Record of this Article is published in Agroforestry Systems, 2020, available online at: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10457-019-00478-1 . Keywords: honey yield; forest value; forest management; forest beekeeping; Africa; Sudan.

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Elzaki, E., & Tian, G. (2020). Economic evaluation of the honey yield from four forest tree species and the future prospect of the forest beekeeping in Sudan. Agroforestry Systems, 94, 1037–1045. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10457-019-00478-1

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