A apicultura no município de Itaqui - RS: desafios e potencialidades

Abstract

Beekeeping is an activity of great importance, providing social and economic benefits, contributing to the maintenance and preservation of existing ecosystems, in addition to being an activity that has grown over the years and presents itself as a good alternative for the exploration of rural properties This work sought to carry out an analysis of the beekeeping chain, investigating in an exploratory way the activity in the municipality of Itaqui-RS, understanding its difficulties and potentialities of this chain through semi-structured interviews. In the study it was verified that in the municipality it has a great productive potential of honey. The activity is carried out by family labor, which is mostly treated with a secondary character, in which producers work in the environment as a way of supplementing income, highlighting their difficulties with labor, deriving from aerial applications and marketing of honey.