Dear all,


The more prosaic estimates are that the value of beekeeping in the UK to the
UK economy via pollination  in 2006 was £166 million (approx US$ 320
million), while the return to the beekeepers themselves was estimated to be
worth £11 million in England in 2001.

In other words the value to beekeepers themselves is about 10% of the value
to the economy-not the nothing reported in the Daily Mail article.  This
disparity in value is indicative of the need for the UK government to
support beekeeping more than it currently does-which is £1.25 Million
annually.

Regards

Mike Rowbottom

HARROGATE
North Yorkshire 
UK
> -----Original Message-----
] On Behalf Of Peter
> L. Borst
> Britain's 44,000 beekeepers are not very commercially minded. Like the
> bees, they work largely for free. *****************

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