Taking temperature into account when assessing the significance of the subjects of the Russian Federation for beekeeping

Abstract

Relevance The development of beekeeping should be a state task. For objective state support, it is advisable to have criteria for assessing the importance of regions from the point of view of beekeeping. Methods Suggested a new method of evaluating the meaningfulness of regions, from the beekeeping point of view, which considers average day temperature. K3 is the adjusted criterion coefficient K2, which takes into account the area of the region, honey productivity and ambient temperature. Results The K3 coefficient more objectively characterizes the relative importance of the regions, compared with the assessment based on the use of potential honey reserves as a criterion, that is, the K1 coefficient. The new coefficient K3 supplements the coefficient K2 by taking into account the ambient temperature and therefore is a more reasonable assessment of the region from the point of view of beekeeping.