Abstract
The objectives of this research were to determine the educational requirements of Honey bee breeders in Mosul district, to determine the differences of these requirements according to some variables, and to recognize the problems which are facing honey bee breeders in Mosul district. The research population consisted of all Honey bee breeders in Mosul district/ Nineveh Governorate that is 120 breeders. A random sample of 80 breeders representing was selected, and data were collected through measuring tool consisted of three parts: the first was to measure the independent variables, the second part consisted of 42 items while the third one consisted of 10 problems were face honey bee breeders. Educational requirements were measured by using Borich model . Data were analyzed by using: means median, mann-whitney test, and Kruskal-Wallis test. The results showed that 77.5% of the respondents were medium educational requirements, and the highest educational requirements was in honey domain while the lowest was in honey bee environment management, also the results showed that no significant differences were exusted in educational requirements according to age, communication level with information resources, mean honey production in the year, occupation kind. While there were significant differences according to educational, bee breeding experience, participation in training related with bee breeding, number of a pairy cells, a pairy kingship. The results also showed that the highest means to the problems which faced Honey bee breeders were: bee exposing to varwa and bee wax exposing to wax butterfly. The research also consisted some conclusion and recommendations.
