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So i am starting up a new bee pollination service which provides bee hives to local farmers.

I am just having trouble with this question.

So for each Ha 2 bee hives are required for pollination.

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So I'm trying to come up with a formula to calculate the percentage of pollination coverage per each Ha (1: 1ha, 2: 10Ha, 3: 100 Ha, 4: 800 Ha)

What formula should I use?

So per each hectare 2 bee hives are required and i am trying to figure out the pollination percentage of the bee hives i need for 10 hectares, 100 hectares and 800 hectares

38Airborne
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  • So, you are a newbee in this domain ? – Jean Marie Jan 07 '23 at 12:22
  • @JeanMarie yes i am – 38Airborne Jan 07 '23 at 12:48
  • Not sure to understand : do you stay with two hives even when you have 10 Ha ? In this case, the pollinisation percentage should drop from 100% to 20%, isn't it ? – Jean Marie Jan 07 '23 at 13:03
  • @JeanMarie yes, but i need a way to calculate it all. So if I have 40 hives and 1 Ha need 2, what is the percentage of "Pollination Coverage" (I now realise I didn't state this in the question) – 38Airborne Jan 07 '23 at 13:51
  • If 1 Ha needs 2 hives for 100% coverage, then if you have $N$ hives and $H$ Ha the coverage percentage is $pct=50*N/H$. Is this what you're looking for? – Jeroen Boschma Jan 07 '23 at 14:20

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So you have two variables : $H$ = number of hives and $A$ = area (measured in ha).

Applying the basic rule of proportionnality, the general ideal formula is $H/A=2/1$ ; otherwise said, idealy, one should have $H/2A = 1$ ; but you desire a percentage, therefore the previous "ideal" formula is $H/2A\times 100$%.

But in reality, this quantity $H/2A$ for example if you double the area without doubling the number of hives will become 50%, and so on, therefore constitute the multiplicator ( less than $1$ in general ?) of the ideal $100$%.

Conclusion : the final formula should be $(H/2A) \ \times \ $ 100%.

Jean Marie
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