Honey (Russian market)

Main article: Beekeeping in Russia

2023: Export growth by 28% to 3.8 kt

Deliveries of Russian honey in 2023 reached 3.8 thousand tons, which is 28% more than a year ago. Such data on January 22, 2024 were provided at the Agroexport center under the Ministry of Agriculture.

According to Interfax"" with reference to the materials of the center, the leader in the export of honey in 2023 remained. Bashkortostan He supplied more than 111 tons of products to seven countries of the world (in,, Vietnam,, Germany, and Kazakhstan) China, Kuwait Morocco which is Poland 2.5 times larger than in 2022, when the volume of exports was measured 43.6 tons, and the geography of supplies - 6 states. Exports increased despite a 13% reduction in commercial honey production in the republic (up to 6 thousand tons) due to adverse weather conditions.

Russian honey supplies in 2023 reached 3.8 thousand tons

By the end of 2023, in Bashkortostan, there were 297.6 thousand bee families in farms of all forms of ownership, of which 3.8 thousand in agricultural enterprises, 27.7 thousand in peasant (farm) farms, and 266 thousand in the private sector.

The volume of production of onboard honey increased by 1.5 tons, exceeding 7 tons (0.13% of the total quantity of commercial honey). In 2023 Rosselkhoznadzor , more than 70 beekeepers registered in the systems with on-board honey producers. In the "" system, Regagro there were almost 2.39 thousand onboard bee families, which is 1.5 times higher than the level of 2022, the share of onboard bee families reached 0.8% of the total number of bee families (300 thousand)

As for the largest importers of Russian honey, China retained the first place in 2023, which accounted for about 22% of snacks. In the second position is located, Serbia in the third -. Slovakia

According to the Union of Beekeepers of Russia, in 2023, honey production in the country decreased by 15% and amounted to 57 thousand tons. Experts attribute this to the unstable climatic situation in many southern regions of the country, which are considered the main producers of honey.^[1]

2022: Production growth of 1% per year - up to 67 tons

In the period from 2017 to 2022. Honey production in Russia grew by about 1% per year and reached an annual volume of 67 thousand tons by the end of this period. This is evidenced by the data of the Rosselkhozbank, published in mid-August 2023.

According to the results of 2022, the top 5 honey regions included the Republic of Bashkiria (7 thousand tons), Altai Territory (4.6 thousand tons), Voronezh Region (4.4 thousand tons), Tatarstan (4.1 thousand tons) and Krasnodar Territory (3.5 thousand tons). Of the leading regions, honey production in the Voronezh region is growing the fastest. The average growth rate over the past five years here was 21%. In the rest of the regions included in the top 5, this figure did not exceed 5%.

Honey production reached 67 thousand tons

According to Rosstat, by the end of 2022 there were 2.7 million bee families in Russia, of which 93.6% of bee families are concentrated in households, 1.7% of bee families in agricultural organizations, and 4.6% of bee families in peasant (farm) farms. At the same time, honey production in the farm is growing at a faster pace - in 2022 the increase was 14.3%, in all categories of farms - 3.8%.

According to Rosselkhozbank analysts, the average Russian consumes about 0.5 kg of honey per year. Almost all honey consumed is produced domestically. The volume of imports is less than 1% of consumption.

Russia so far ranks only 39th in the world in terms of honey exports, supplying about 4 thousand tons per year abroad, but in 2023, honey exports from the Russian Federation may increase to 5.5 thousand tons. This was announced on August 14, 2023 by the first deputy chairman of the Federation Council Committee on Agrarian and Food Policy and Environmental Management Sergei Mitin.

Today in Russia, about 100 thousand beekeepers are engaged in beekeeping. Moreover, most of them are represented by personal subsidiary farms or small forms, "he said.[2]

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