作为商业养蜂人，您可以满足加拿大和世界各地各种农作物对传粉服务的预期需求。反映了尼亚加拉学院对农业食品的整体方法以及致力于在未来十年内满足全球对数千名商业养蜂人的需求，包括到2023年在加拿大各地需要超过3,000名商业养蜂人的承诺。商业养蜂计划。通过带有30个主动管理蜂箱的校园养蜂场进行应用学习。三个学期的计划与蜜蜂的正常年度生命周期相吻合。反映了省级对传粉媒介健康策略的关注，目的是在全球野生传粉媒介持续减少的情况下，创建一支高技能的劳动力来照顾有管理的传粉媒介。
As a Commercial Beekeeper, you help meet the expected demand for pollination services by various agricultural crops in Canada and around the world.<br><br>Highlights<br>Reflects Niagara College’s holistic approach to agri-food and commitment to helping meet the global demand for thousands of commercial beekeepers over the next decade including the need for skilled breeders, honey producers and pollination contractors.<br>Eastern Canada’s first-ever Commercial Beekeeping program.<br>Applied learning experiences via an on-campus apiary with off-site yards and over 100 actively managed hives.<br>Three-semester program coincides with the normal annual lifecycle of a honey bee.<br>Supports provincial focus to create a highly skilled labour force to care for managed pollinators, as wild pollinators continue to decline globally.<br><br>Career Opportunities<br>Apiarist<br>Apiary labourer<br>Apiary manager<br>Apiary technician<br>Honey and beehive-related product production<br>Honey production supervisor<br>Owneroperator – commercial beekeeping<br>Pollination services<br>Seasonal beekeeper<br><br>1 Year Graduate Certificate