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The modern agricultural industry relies extremely on pollination, especially pollination of the major horticultural crops. Reducing bee colonies causes recognition of factors determining activity of bee colony and helps beekeepers to better understand why bee colonies are destroyed sometimes and how they should concern about beehives to breed them in proper way for producing better honey. This research aimed at identifying factors affecting empowerment of beekeepers of Alborz province. The researcher used factor analysis to determine effective factors. Population of the research was beekeepers of Alborz province in which from among them 250 individuals were selected as the sample of the study using Morgan table. Results of factor analysis showed that about 62.846% of total changes occurred in four factors including queen bee, modern packaging, population of hives, and sub-products of honey bee and organic honey production determines the empowerment of beekeeping that was studied in this research.