59-05-032 Proceeding

383 Proceedings of the Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Congress 1. Farmer 2. Businessman 3. Politician 4. Government Officer 5. Educator The Three Tenets Point of View The three tenets of Philosophy of Sufficiency Economy correspondwell with the traditional beekeeping development concept. Adevelopment should be containable therefore it must staywith in themeans and thus withmoderation.Themoderation does not restrict people fromcreativity or work expansion. On the contrary, once the initial operation is reasonably successful and predictably expandable, the implementation canmove further with reasonableness or with educated informed decision. Staying within the realm of reasons, one can move quite securely while stabling the operations. Once the foundation and the initial expansion are solid, the operation is sustainable; it has initiated its own immunization process, yielding the stage of immunity (Ibid. p. 7). The three tenets of HM the King’s philosophy can be restated below. 1. Moderation 2. Reasonableness 3. Immunity Considering possible beekeeping developmental situation inThailand, the implementation seems to fit the well with the Philosophy of Sufficiency Economy. The Beekeeping Consideration Beekeeping is nothing new. It has been going on for thousands of years in history (Zhou Yao 1990). It has been recorded in ancient books of history as well as literatures of how bees honey have played a role in the society (Lau 2012). It is also a known fact that humans have been using honey from bees in their livelihood as part of their food and remedies. Out of more than 20,000 species (Koeniger 2010), there are two prominent species or strains of bees being kept for household and economic reasons nowadays: local Asian 5 honeybees and imported European honeybees (Wongsiri et al., 1996). The former is known as Apis cerena and the latter Apis mellifera , both from the Apoidea Superfamily. The differences from the two prominent species, which may be called economic bees, are quite well known. It is also a known fact that the profit of keeping Apis mellifera is higher than that of Apis cerana (Somerville 2011). Yet there are facts that for many countries in Asia, Apis mellifera do not thrive well enough to be totally sustainable. On the contrary, the Apis cerana , which seems to 5 See Rattanawannee and Chanchao (2011) for details about Asian Honeybees.