Beekeeping Production In Three Life Zones As A Strategy For Environmental Sustainability In Apurimac, Peru – 2021

Abstract

The present research aims to evaluate beekeeping production in three life zones as a strategy for environmental sustainability in Apurimac, the life zones are Pampas, Chicmo and Huancaray, where beekeeping is considered as a secondary and precarious activity with limited production capacity, which causes low agricultural production due to the lack of pollinators and a decrease in economic income, it was conducted with a cross-sectional descriptive design, data collection was through a structured questionnaire of interviews and direct observation sampling, In the three dimensions that are economic, social and environmental, each one with 5 study indicators, financial autonomy, economic stability, net monthly income, use of technology, management of number of hives, in social, job satisfaction, access to health, social integration, access to education, access to essential services, in environmental, impacts on natural resources, impacts on local biodiversity, use of chemicals, availability of melliferous flora, level of vegetative cover were considered. The methodology to determine sustainability was the Biogram with a scale of 0 - 0.5. It was evaluated with the statistical analysis ANOVA at 5% and compared the sustainability indexes with a Student's t-test at 5%.  The results of the sustainability indexes for each study zone were: Pampas life zone 0.41 corresponds to optimal sustainability, Chicmo life zone 0.38 corresponds to stable sustainability, and Huancaray life zone 0.40 corresponds to sound sustainability.