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Chinese Agricultural Science Bulletin ›› 2014, Vol. 30 ›› Issue (29): 60-66.doi: 10.11924/j.issn.1000-6850.2014-0202

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The U.S. Apiculture Supporting Policies and Its Implication to China

  

  • Received:2014-01-20 Revised:2014-01-20 Accepted:2014-09-01 Online:2014-10-31 Published:2014-10-31

Abstract: Apiculture was key to agricultural industry because of bee pollination for crops, but there were little apiculture policies in Chinese at present, the government didn’t supply a good policy environment for the evelopment of apiculture. So, the study analyzed the U.S. relatively comprehensive apiculture support policy system used the method of inductive analysis to raise suggestions for complementing Chinese apiculture support policy system and promote the development of Chinese apiculture. The analysis result showed that the U.S. apiculture support policies could be classified into the following types which were honey price support policy aimed to stabilize beekeepers’income, honey trade protection policy aimed to protect the interest of domestic honey producers’, apiculture insurance and emergency assistance policy aimed to alleviate beekeepers’disaster losses, research support policies aimed to solve bee diseases and insect pests problems and the Colony Collapse Disorder, and registration and inspection policies aimed to supervise the bee keeping activities. ombined with the status quo of Chinese apiculture policies, the Chinese apiculture support policy system could be perfected by development of policy- based apiculture insurance which should be supplemented by apiculture risk salvation, increase of finance subsidy to bee keepers’and finance support to apiculture researches, and strict control of bee keeping activities.