Abstract:
Apiculture is a program of the Center for Social Forestry and Environmental
Partnership Kalimantan for the members of the Community Forestry Farmer Group in Tebing
Siring village through the Social Forestry Business Group which began in 2017. The purpose of
this research is to determine the perceptions and attitudes of Community Forestry farmer groups
on the apiculture program. The results of the study explained that members of the farmer group
strongly agreed with the apiculture program, because they profoundly understood honey bee feed
cultivation will benefit for the rehabilitation of protected forests and the honey can increase their
income. The attitude of members of the farmer group in running the apiculture program is
relatively low due to bear pest problems, remote locations, and limited technical
coaching. Solutions that can be taken to overcome these problems are pest control, equipment subsidies and kelulut bee cultivation.
Keywords: Community forestry; Social forestry business groups; Honey bee; Tebing Siring
