Analysis and Development Prospects of the World Honey Market

An analysis was performed on the economic state of the beekeeping industry as well as factors influencing the dynamics of its development in five leading countries of honey exporters namely China, New Zealand, Argentina, Germany, and Spain in order to solve theoretical, methodological and practical problems of increasing the efficiency of the development of regional beekeeping in market conditions. The present paper described some branch peculiarities of the beekeeping functioning, the market development for products of industry, scientific and technological achievements, organizational and economic mechanisms of interaction between agricultural producers and processing enterprises, the legal and information provision of business entities, the development of industrial and social infrastructures of industry, and qualified personnel training in studied countries. Based on the analysis, practical recommendations are offered for improving the efficiency of regional beekeeping development.