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<p>Information and communication technologies are part of almost any branch of human lives. During the last decade also beekeeping joined the direction of application of IT tools and solutions and precision beekeeping was defined. Still in the beekeeping many operations and observations are completed manually, and there is a potential to switch to the digital realisation. Information technologies can be used in the beekeeping to partly support the beekeepers by implementation of automatic or semi-automatic solutions for bee colony remote monitoring, apiary record making and other actions. The aim of this paper is to make a summary of the usage of information technology tools by the beekeepers in Latvia, summarizing precision beekeeping development status and conclude about its future development potential. To achieve this aim, in cooperation with Latvian Beekeepers Association, a beekeepers survey was conducted. More than 200 beekeepers shared thoughts and opinions about their application of information and communication technologies for monitoring the bee colonies and apiary management. The summary of the survey conducted is described in this study.</p>
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Information and communication technologies are part of almost any branch of human lives. During the last decade also beekeeping joined the direction of application of IT tools and solutions and precision beekeeping was defined. Still in the beekeeping many operations and observations are completed manually, and there is a potential to switch to the digital realisation. Information technologies can be used in the beekeeping to partly support the beekeepers by implementation of automatic or semi-automatic solutions for bee colony remote monitoring, apiary record making and other actions. The aim of this paper is to make a summary of the usage of information technology tools by the beekeepers in Latvia, summarizing precision beekeeping development status and conclude about its future development potential. To achieve this aim, in cooperation with Latvian Beekeepers Association, a beekeepers survey was conducted. More than 200 beekeepers shared thoughts and opinions about their application of information and communication technologies for monitoring the bee colonies and apiary management. The summary of the survey conducted is described in this study.

Status of the Precision Beekeeping Development in Latvia

Latvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies

Rural Sustainability Research

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Information and communication technologies are part of almost any branch of human lives. During the last decade also beekeeping joined the direction of...

Status of the Precision Beekeeping Development in Latvia

Published Online: Aug 11, 2021

Page range: 86 - 92

Received: Apr 12, 2021

Accepted: Jun 29, 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/plua-2021-0010

Keywords
Precision Beekeeping, Precision Apiculture, Apiary management, Colony monitoring, Beekeeping in Latvia

© 2021 Aleksejs Zacepins et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Status of the Precision Beekeeping Development in Latvia

Published Online: Aug 11, 2021

Page range: 86 - 92

Received: Apr 12, 2021

Accepted: Jun 29, 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/plua-2021-0010

KeywordsPrecision Beekeeping, Precision Apiculture, Apiary management, Colony monitoring, Beekeeping in Latvia

© 2021 Aleksejs Zacepins et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
Precision Beekeeping, Precision Apiculture, Apiary management, Colony monitoring, Beekeeping in Latvia