Improving the veterinary service of beekeeping

Beekeeping is an integral part of animal husbandry, and, despite all the difficulties that arise in the conditions of a radical transformation of agriculture, it is increasing the rate of production of the most valuable products: honey, wax, propolis, pollen, royal jelly, bee venom. Maintaining the epizootic well-being of the beekeeping industry depends on the implementation of a set of therapeutic and preventive measures, since the epizootic situation on the infectious and invasive diseases of bees in some regions of Russia remains difficult due to the fact that in some regions the control by the state veterinary service for veterinary and sanitary the state of apiaries and wax processing plants; untimely diagnosis of major diseases; there is the production and use by beekeepers of poor-quality and ineffective means, as well as insufficiently precise and professional implementation of preventive, diagnostic measures and measures for treating diseases in dysfunctional apiaries. The process of improving the veterinary service of apiaries will contribute to the rational use of material resources as well as staffing the staff of veterinary laboratories on the basis of scientifically based labor standards, taking into account the amount of work, qualifications of specialists and assessing the contribution of each in determining the economic efficiency of veterinary beekeeping.