1, with strong climate dependence.
Beekeeping is a breeding project that depends on the weather, and the breeding benefits are greatly affected by the climate. For example, bees can't leave their nests to collect honey during the continuous rainy days during the honey flow period, and they can't make full use of honey sources to produce honey. If they encounter this climate several times a year, there is basically no income in that year, so beekeeping is actually a risky breeding project, except for a few middle-aged and elderly people, which is not more optimistic than young people.
2. The technical requirements are high.
Beekeeping is a thorough technical activity. Without relevant technology, it is difficult to raise bees well, and it is also necessary to accumulate experience. So many young people give up after a year or two without any gains or failures. Only those middle-aged and elderly people who have no better choices can persist, which leads to the aging of employees in the beekeeping industry, while young people prefer other industries with stable income and short cycle.
3. True honey is hard to sell.
The honey market is the key factor that restricts the beekeeping industry. In fact, all kinds of inferior honey or fake honey dominate the current honey market. There are three main reasons for this phenomenon. First, ordinary consumers can't effectively distinguish between true and false honey. Second, honey fraud is very difficult. Third, fake honey has obvious advantages in price, thus forming a deformed market where fake honey is popular and real honey is difficult to sell.
4. Honey source has strong limitations.
Beekeeping must have a rich and sustainable honey source, without which it is impossible to keep bees. For example, Chinese bees in fixed-point breeding not only require rich honey sources nearby, but also require that the number of bees distributed nearby should not exceed the bearing capacity of honey sources, otherwise bees without honey will have no breeding benefits, and agricultural pollution is also an important factor restricting beekeeping. In fact, bee pesticide poisoning often occurs.
Summary: There are many reasons why the beekeeping industry is not optimistic, but the main reasons are basically the above. Fake honey, in particular, makes it almost impossible for real honey to move, but as long as high-quality products are used to maintain consumers, beekeeping is actually promising.