The domination of medical treatments' budget on the Hungarian National program for beekeeping

Abstract

The Western honey bee, Apis mellifera, is the most important animal pollinator in agriculture worldwide and
apiculture provides full or additional family income with a considerable market for bee products used as
food, pharmaceutics and medical products. More importantly honeybees are key pollinators native to Europe
and have great impact for many agricultural crops and conservation of natural plant diversity. Since we
joined the European Union the Hungarian Beekeepers Federation manages the budget of grounded by the
797/04 and 1234/07 EC directives. According to the 47/2010 (XII 31) VM regulation our National Program
of beekeeping controls the supporting system for multiple reimbursement applications. In the six year
average data of this program between the types of requests occurs a clear dominance for budgets connected
to medical treatment which is a symptomatic treatment but no solution to unravel factors which are
responsible for increased colony losses.