What is the purchase price of honey in Greece?

Published 2024년 7월 3일

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In Greece, the price of honey retail and wholesale varies by location, with higher prices in tourist areas. Yanis Senko, a fourth-generation beekeeper, runs the family farm beeZeus Apiculture with his brother Dimitris, managing 2,400 hives and producing queen bees. They use the Langstroth system and move hives across Greece to optimize production. Their Apis Era cooperative, launched in 2023 with 12 producers, aims to boost the local honey industry. The average honey yield is about 25-30 kg per hive annually, and the company sells by-products and services to preserve genetic diversity. Thyme honey is particularly popular due to its high antioxidant content, and manna honey is gaining more market attention for the same reason.

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The retail price of honey in Greece varies by geographic location. In the south there are more tourists and the prices are higher. Now it is between 10 and 15 euros/kg. And the wholesale purchase price is between EUR 3.20 and EUR 4.10/kg. This was shared by the Greek beekeeper Yanis Senko for Agri.BG. Read more: 250 beekeepers take care of the world's largest apiary Together with other agro-journalists from the EU, at the end of April we visited his laboratory for the production of queen bees from the local species Apis mellifera macedonica. In 10 hours he can inseminate up to 20 queen bees. The success rate is between 70 and 80%. With him, an uninseminated queen bee costs 9 euros, a naturally inseminated queen bee costs 15 euros, and an artificially inseminated one costs 75 euros to 300 euros, depending on the genetic material. "We select the mother and father according to what the fellow beekeeper wants. We can inseminate with certain genetic material to achieve the ...

Source: Agri