Eliciting beekeepers’ preferences for the small hive beetle control policy in Italy: a contingent valuation survey approach

Agricultural and Food Economics

Table 1 Number of beekeepers and hives by province in Calabria and Sicily region (2021)

	Total beekeepers	% professional operations	Total hives	% hives in professional operations	Average SIZE	Average size of professional operations
Catanzaro	443	49.89	25,469	88.58	57.49	102.09
Cosenza	819	28.57	51,531	84.22	62.92	185.47
Crotone	202	80.20	18,248	95.27	90.34	107.31
Reggio Calabria	368	58.70	35,563	95.24	96.64	156.81
Vibo Valentia	172	66.28	17,562	90.51	102.10	139.43
Calabria	1794	42.81	148,373	89.71	82.71	173.32
Agrigento	291	62.20	10,354	84.31	35.58	48.23
Caltanissetta	280	71.79	7,298	92.46	26.06	33.57
Catania	570	72.81	30,715	95.64	53.89	70.79
Enna	287	83.97	5,682	93.47	19.80	22.04
Messina	448	66.74	15,936	87.29	35.57	46.53
Palermo	643	50.39	21,942	74.45	34.12	50.42
Ragusa	341	53.08	11,876	88.93	34.83	58.35
Siracusa	429	82.75	30,869	97.44	71.96	84.73
Trapani	208	35.58	5,806	60.39	27.91	47.38
Sicilia	2222	48.51	140,478	88.67	63.22	115.54
Italy	68,347	28.30	1,727,468	73.32	25.27	65.49