The California beekeeping industry provides critical pollination services to growers of over 90 California agricultural crops that constitute one-third of our daily diet and 37.5 percent of California’s total agricultural production. Additionally, California beekeepers rank in the top four states annually in honey production. The industry provides substantial and necessary revenues for the state and for its citizens.
(Added by Stats. 2010, Ch. 585, Sec. 1. (AB 1912) Effective January 1, 2011.)