Relative contribution of different managing factors on production of honeybee colonies in Alborz province

This research was carried out to estimate relative ratio of different managing factors in apiaries of Alborz province. According to the statistics of Organization of Agriculture jihad Alborz Province 2011)' Alborz province had 400 beekeepers and 33600 honeybee colonies. 99 beekeepers of Alborz province in different cities were randomly selected to complete the beekeeping questionnaires. Beekeepers were divided to three groups based on their colonies number' consisted of beekeepers with less than 50 colonies, 50 100 colonies and more than 100 colonies. Obtained data were analyzed by SPSS software. The results that showed effective factors on honey production average of colonies consist on migration management, breeding management and consider of plant vegetation, and main job were (b=1.875 and P=0.002), (b=3.369 and P=0.005) and (b=5.492 and P=0.004) with R2=0.524 respectively. The effective factors on pure income consist on breeding management and notice of plant vegetation, pathogen and pest management, production and selling management, purchase and queen change were (b=79027.45 and P=0.023), (b=67067.47 and P=0.034), (b 5245.77 and P<0.001) and (b=120272.06 and P=0.091) with R2=0.735 respectively. It is concluded that the effective factors must be noticed and controlled to have higher production and income in beekeeping industry.