Some Aspects Regarding the Transhumance of the Romanian Beekeepers, Members of the Black Sea Basin Network

Abstract

The paper focuses on aspects from the activity of the beekeepers from The South East Development Region of Romania, members of the beekeeper’s network from the Black Sea Basin Region. It focuses on the capitalization of the melliferous potential from this region in terms of presenting the plants for beekeeping harvests as well as the areas favourable for transhumance. There is an emphasis on the size of the area dedicated to transhumance as well as on the intensity of this phenomenon especially for the plants with high and very high beekeeping share (white acacia, lime and sunflower). Furthermore, there is a presentation of the frequent issues that the beekeepers face in their activity (especially in transhumance) and possible solutions foreseen after the present study. Thus, the paper presents the making of an application based on digital maps of the areas of apiculture interest, a tool that comes to support the beekeepers, especially during the thanshumance period.

Keywords

• the south east development region
• the beekeepers’network
• the capitalization of the melliferous potential
• transhumance/pastoral beekeeping
• support
• beekeepers’ activity
• digital maps