itchyfeet Mega user
Posts : 2268 Join date : 2010-09-10 Age : 68 Location : Paskalevets
| Subject: Re: Caution:E-mail that smells a little! Tue Jan 04, 2011 5:08 pm | |
| - ABC Property Surveyors.BG wrote:
- Simple maths on the honey production bearing in mind Bulgaria as a whole produces between 8 and 11 thousand tonnes per year.Minimum 10,500 lev return in first year.Forget the 60,000 leva investment.2 lev per 25kg tin produced.So that's 10,500 lev divided by 2lev=5,200 25kg tins=130,000kg's of honey which is 130 tonnes exactly which is approximately 1.6% of Bulgaria's total honey production from one back yard! Right,Divide that by 150 hives and that's 866kg per hive per year.A hive of bees travel approximately twice the distance around early to make one pound of honey.So 130,000 kg's=286,000 pounds of honey=572,000 trips around the earth=24,901 miles around the earth x 572,000 trips for the Bees =14,243,372,000 miles flown by those poor little buggers in the garden! I certainly hope they're getting air miles as I'm not doing the 8 hours work that it must take to produce one 25kg of honey from the hives for 2 leva!
Blimey . . . . British Airways have got nothing on this lot then!!!!!! |
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ABC Property Surveyors.BG Senior user
Posts : 163 Join date : 2009-09-06
| Subject: Re: Caution:E-mail that smells a little! Tue Jan 04, 2011 5:28 pm | |
| I only did it as Willowsend had done all the investigative work here.I was feeling guilty as I was asleep on the settee whilst Willowsend was being proactive! |
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| Subject: Re: Caution:E-mail that smells a little! Thu Jan 06, 2011 8:56 am | |
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Suzee Junior user
Posts : 96 Join date : 2009-10-12
| Subject: Re: Caution:E-mail that smells a little! Thu Jan 06, 2011 11:06 am | |
| Wasn't snail farming in the Bulgarian papers not so long ago as being the newest and next upcoming rural home business?
Not that I'd fancy it myself lol. And beehives well they do take some looking after, although we have a friend who tops up his pension pretty well with the proceeds from his 50 or so hives. But he is part of a much larger group that have good trade contacts and can sell what they produce at a profit. Even he says thatprices have dropped a fair amount though. |
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