Beekeeping as a BusinessA clearly written, practical start-up guide to every aspect of establishing and maintaining a hive, written for rural people in developing countries. Beekeeping requires little, if any, financial aid and bee products have a good export market. They also provide nutrition for the hive owner. This book is easy to understand, and the text is well supported with clearly- labelled black-and-white drawings and diagrams. There are also numerous colour and black-and-white photographs. |
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Contents
Section 1 | 1 |
Section 2 | 3 |
Section 3 | 6 |
Section 4 | 9 |
Section 5 | 10 |
Section 6 | 16 |
Section 7 | 19 |
Section 8 | 20 |
Section 11 | 34 |
Section 12 | 39 |
Section 13 | 42 |
Section 14 | 46 |
Section 15 | 48 |
Section 16 | 54 |
Section 17 | 63 |
Section 18 | |
Common terms and phrases
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Beekeeping as a Business |
| Author | Richard Jones |
| Contributors | Commonwealth Secretariat, International Bee Research Association |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Commonwealth Secretariat, 1999 |
| ISBN | 0850926319, 9780850926316 |
| Length | 70 pages |
| Subjects | › › Technology & Engineering / Agriculture / Beekeeping |
| Export Citation | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |