A Handbook of Beekeeping
A Handbook of Beekeeping
A Handbook of Beekeeping
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ABOUT THE BOOK: Agriculture is the backbone of Indian economy. Nearly 70% of
human population is dependent on agriculture. In the initial plans, huge
investments were made in agricultural research and development as a result of
which India became self-sufficient in food grain production. Special emphasis
were also given to develop various agro based enterprises like dairy, poultry, fish
farming, sericulture and beekeeping with a view to maximize farm-income and
self-employment. Out of these, beekeeping industry received inadequate
attention resulting its poor development in India.
It is a proven fact that beekeeping improves the economic condition of the
farmers, restrict the migration of rural youth to urban areas and helps in holistic
development of rural society. It is the only enterprise which did not create any
problem to the nature, does not require more capital investment and skilled
labour. This profession can be successfully adopted by well to do as well as
small/marginal farmers, farm-women, landless labourers, rural unemployed youth
and retired or in-service personals. This enterprise has minimum land and
structural requirement. Initial cost to start this profession is also very nominal and
recurring cost in neglible. It is suitable for rural tribals and other weaker sections
of human society.
The honey bees play a vital role in upliftment of crop production through cross
pollination. They can fly 50,000 miles and visit 5,000,000 blossoms to gather
enough nectar to produce about 400 450 gm of honey, which is stored not for
themselves but for the survival of the colony. It is estimated that India has 50
million hectares under cross pollianted crops that are benefitted by Honey bees
pollination 3 to 9 bee colonies depending of crop per hectare are generally
required for adequate pollination. Even if a minimum of 3 colonies per hectare
are considered essential, then about 150 million colonies would be needed for
assured pollination of 50 million hectare crops. Against this requirement, only 1
million bee-colonies are available at present. On the other hand, the population
of wild insect pollinators is on the decline because of reduction in hibernating and
nesting places due to intensive agriculture, deforestation, cleaning of wastelands
and indiscriminate use of pesticides. It is, therefore, considered necessary to
promote and develop beekeeping industry in India for breakthrough in
agricultural production, self-employment generation and socioeconomic
upliftment in rural areas.
For proper beekeeping development in our country, it is very important to
provide scientific proven technology of beekeeping to beekeepers and create
mass awareness in potential areas at National level. Although, various books on
beekeeping are available in India, but authentic, practical & precise informations
are still lacking for most of the Indian beekeepers. This manuscript is intended to
provide practical information on various aspects in precised and digestible form.
Various key issues have been discussed to make it very useful to every beekeeper,
farmer, student, scientist, planner and policy maker.
AUTHOR: Dr. Dharm Singh and Devender Pratap Singh | ISBN: 9788177542394 |
YEAR: 2006 | PAGES: 291 | SIZE: 15 X 21.5 X 1.5 cm. | BINDING: Hard |
LANGUAGE: English
1. Dharm Singh Born in 1956 in Agra (UP.) Did B.Sc Ag (Hons.) in 1978 & M. Sc. Ag.
in 1980, both with first division and Doctorate in 1993 from Agra University. He
started his professions career in 1981 and holds various responsible positions in
repute.
During his professional career, he has published more than 186 research articles
Honey Board (USA) in 1999, China Council for Promotion of International Trade
(Beijing) in 2000, National Honey Marketing Board (New Delhi) in 2001 and
different committees.
Animal Welfare Board of India, Govt. of India and member of National Honey
Marketing Board. He holds the political position in All India Youth Congress as
Board, Govt, of India and other various programmes sponsored by MCD, Delhi,
Ministry of Health, Govt. of India and Ministry of Agriculture, Govt. of India and
State Governments.
CONTENTS:
1 Advances in Beekeeping
1 Importance of Beekeeping
15 Important Suggestions
1 Introduction
3 What is Pollination
1 Bee Hive
2 Comb
3 Other Appliances
1 Origin
2 Classification of Honeybees
1 Species
2 Caste
I. The Queen
1 External Anatomy
I. The Head
2 Internal Anatomy
I. Digestive System
I. Egg Stage
2. Division of Labour
i. Indoor Duties
1. Protective System
3. Communication System
1. Behaviour of Honeybees
2. Honeybee Senses
I. Smell
II. Sight
III. Taste
IV. Touch
I. Nectar
II. Pollen
III. Propolis
IV. Water
I. Examination of Colonies
V. Honey Extraction
3. Management during Monsoon
II. Feeding
III. Robbing
I. Examination of Colonies
V. Winter Packing
i. Inner Packing
I. Giving Eggs
III. Requeening
2. Swarming Management
3. Capturing the Swarm
I. Swarm Control
III. Reversing
I. Supersedure
II. Absconding
6. Fall Management
REARING
2. Mites
i. Other Enemies
i. Viral Diseases
1. Honey
2. Wax
3. Propolis
4. Royal Jelly
5. Bee Venom
6. Other Products
I. Pollen
1. Kind of Honey
I. As per Origin
II. As per Methods of Processing
III. Other kind of Honey which meets all the Compositional and Quality
Criteria
3. Properties of Honey
4. Uses of Honey
V. Other Uses
8. Honey Adulteration
1. Extraction of Honey
I. Moisture Content
3. Processing
i. Heat Treatment
ii. Straining
iii. Filteration
I. Pre-heating Tank
V. Cooling Tank
5. Storage
I. Honey Containers
1. Honey Granulation
2. Honey Fermentation
i. Breeder Colony
v. Others
i. To Honey Bees
2. Honey
I. Domestic Marketing
ii. Segmentation
iii. Trends
v. Competiton
vii. Pricing
viii. Promotion
ii. Segmentation
iii. Trends
v. Competition
l. Bee Wax
ll. Pollen
lll. Propolis
V. Bee Venom
Honey
1) APPENDIX
1. Beekeeping Units
1. Eligible Projects
2. Eligible Activities
3. Eligible Borrowers
4. Ceiling Limit of the Project
5. Rural Area
6. Banks
7. Sponsorship
8. EDP Training
9. Margin Money
1. Andhra Pradesh
2. Assam
3. Bihar
4. Himachal Pradesh
6. Orissa
7. Haryana
X. GLOSSARY
XI. BIBLIOGRAPHY