Status of the precision beekeeping development in Latvia

Zacepins, A., Latvia Univ. of Life Sciences and Technologies, Jelgava; Kviesis, A., Latvia Univ. of Life Sciences and Technologies, Jelgava; Komasilovs, V.; Brusbardis, V., Latvian Beekeeping Association, Jelgava; Kronbergs, J., Latvian Beekeeping Association, Jelgava ;BeeTech Services, SIA, Riga

Status of the precision beekeeping development in Latvia

2021

Zacepins, A., Latvia Univ. of Life Sciences and Technologies, Jelgava (Latvia) | Kviesis, A., Latvia Univ. of Life Sciences and Technologies, Jelgava (Latvia) | Komasilovs, V. | Brusbardis, V., Latvian Beekeeping Association, Jelgava (Latvia) | Kronbergs, J., Latvian Beekeeping Association, Jelgava (Latvia);BeeTech Services, SIA, Riga (Latvia)

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.

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animal husbandry apicultura apiculture automation automatisation bee colonies colonia de abejas colonie d'abeilles conduite de la ruche development hive management latvia letonia lettonie manejo del apiario monitoring precision agriculture recherche remote sensing research surveillance technologies de l'information et de la communication vigilancia

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Rural Sustainability Research: scientific journal (Latvia)

Volume 45 Issue 340 ISSN 2256-0939

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p. 86–92

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Ganaderia; Teledetection; Agricultura de precision; Investigacion; Tecnologias para la informacion y la comunicacion (tic); Elevage; Information and communication technologies (icts); Agriculture de precision; Teledeteccion; Automatizacion

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English

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Summary (En). 6 fig., 22 ref.. Continues edition: Proceedings of the Latvia University of Agriculture, ISSN 2255-8535 (Online), ISSN 1407-4427 (Print)

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