This study attempts to study the economics of beekeeping of the honeybee entrepreneurs in the Moga district of Punjab. Out of 493 trainees trained during 2011–17, 65 continual adopters of beekeeping were selected for the present study. Three categories of these beekeepers were prepared based on the number of colonies, i.e. 10–50 (small-scale enterprise), 51–100 (medium-scale enterprise) and more than 100 colonies (large-scale enterprise). It was found that 24 beekeepers (36. 92%) had small-scale enterprises, 22 (33.84%) had medium-scale enterprises and 19 (29.23%) had large-scale enterprises. The average annual income ranged from Rs. 0.11 lakh to Rs. 1.48 lakh for small-scale enterprises, Rs. 1.20 lakh to Rs. 2.43 lakh for medium-scale enterprises and from Rs. 3.15 lakh to Rs. 13.44 lakh for large-scale enterprises. The beekeepers were earning income from the sale of honey (64.62%), honey and bee colonies (12.35%) and queen bees (2.6%). The major problems faced by the respondents were related to marketing, migration and the shortage of bee flora.
