"China's honey exports ranking first in the world, honey exports are about 100 thousand tons per year, the annual foreign exchange earnings of over $100 million." "Status and development of China honey industry" before the white paper on the white paper released in beijing. This paper describes the history, development, consumption, product quality and the status of the international market in a comprehensive and in-depth way.
White paper, since 2007 after the implementation of the "farmer cooperatives law", farmers' beekeeping cooperatives has been rapid development. According to the China Bee Products Association survey statistics, in 2008 the industrial and commercial sector registered bee farming cooperatives has only 122; by the end of 700 has more than 5, an increase of more than 2011 times. China's annual output of honey from 12 thousand and 300 tons in 1958 to 448 thousand tons in 2012 (released by the Ministry of Agriculture), accounting for 1 / 4 of the world's total output of honey.
The white paper predicts that China's honey industry, a huge space for development. Honey has been accepted and recognized by more and more people. It has strong market vitality and great market potential. According to the first ten years of annual consumption growth rate of bee products, the next ten years, China's annual per capita consumption of honey may be doubled. At the same time, the white paper believes that China's honey industry in the future development direction, should not just pursue the number of development, but also the pursuit of quality and efficiency of the quality of honey.
President China Bee Products Association Wang Lan said, China bee product development has reached a new turning point, rely on a single pursuit of expansion, low price is difficult to continue; rely on adulterated, reduce the quality of income, the country will rely on the traditional way; the management of enterprises, can only maintain the status quo, and go.