Economics of Homey Production and Marketing in Chitwan, Nepal

Beekeeping is the natural and cultural heritage for the rural people of Nepal. Commercial beekeeping is still in primary level in this country. Beekeeping is very much suitable for the poor people who have less or no land holding. This book therefore, provides information on enterprise scale wise profitability of honey production, cost, margin and price spread in the marketing of mellifera honey, and also tries to find out the factors affecting production of honey. This information should be useful to the professionals and policy makers who are working in the field of beekeeping, and marketing of hive products.