Programme: Rural Development Programme

Mrs. Gatova-Marinova's activity is raising bee families and producing honey. The farm is located in the village of Sadovets, municipality D. Dabnik, region Pleven. It has 109 pcs. bee families located on their own property. There is an outbuilding with an area of ​​25 m2, which is used for the needs of an apiary. It is brought according to the requirements of the "Good beekeeping practices". There is a room for extracting honey with a vestibule, a warehouse for storing honey and a warehouse for storing beekeeping equipment. The owner has a manual 3-frame centrifuge, a bee pollen dryer, a steam wax melter, a maturator, a separator, a decrystallizer, a bathtub and an electric knife for printing beehives, as well as other small beekeeping equipment. The bee colonies are kept in 10 frame hives from the Dadan Blatt system. Apiary is registered in the RFSD - Pleven, under number 5896-0444. The expected average yields of honey from one bee family are 20 kg. The realization will be carried out only in bulk. The average price per unit of production is BGN 5.30. The wax produced is not sold, it is exchanged for wax bases.
The area offers good conditions for the development of beekeeping. It is located in an ecologically clean area, with a variety of honey-bearing vegetation with the possibility of obtaining monofloral honey (acacia, linden, rapeseed, sunflower, amorphous). There is direct access to running water from the water supply network.
 The temperate - continental climate is suitable for beekeeping and production of honey and bee products.
The farmer meets the requirements for application under sub-measure 6.3 "Start-up aid for the development of small farms" of measure 6 "Development of farms and enterprises" of the RDP 2014-2020.