The document discusses integrated farming systems and how beekeeping or apiculture can be integrated into farming. It provides details on how beekeeping supplements income and employment for rural populations. It also discusses how training bees to associate the scent of sunflowers with food rewards in beehives can increase bees' visits to sunflowers and boost sunflower seed production and yields.
The document discusses integrated farming systems and how beekeeping or apiculture can be integrated into farming. It provides details on how beekeeping supplements income and employment for rural populations. It also discusses how training bees to associate the scent of sunflowers with food rewards in beehives can increase bees' visits to sunflowers and boost sunflower seed production and yields.
The document discusses integrated farming systems and how beekeeping or apiculture can be integrated into farming. It provides details on how beekeeping supplements income and employment for rural populations. It also discusses how training bees to associate the scent of sunflowers with food rewards in beehives can increase bees' visits to sunflowers and boost sunflower seed production and yields.
The document discusses integrated farming systems and how beekeeping or apiculture can be integrated into farming. It provides details on how beekeeping supplements income and employment for rural populations. It also discusses how training bees to associate the scent of sunflowers with food rewards in beehives can increase bees' visits to sunflowers and boost sunflower seed production and yields.
03 Process Integrated farming ★ integrated farming system is a sustainable agricultural system. that integrates livestock, crop production, fish, poultry, tree. crops, plantation crops and other systems that benefit each other.
Small and marginal farmers are the core of the Indian rural economy constituting 85% of the total farming community. Integrated farming system (IFS) is recognized as a solution to the continuous increase of demand for food production, providing stability to the income and nutritional security particularly for the small and marginal farmers with limited resources. IFS is a mix of farm enterprises such as crop, livestock, aquaculture, poultry, sericulture and agro-forestry to achieve economic and sustained agricultural production through efficient utilization of resources Advantages and disadvantages Advantages Disadvantages ➔ There is also regular stable income ➔ Production level is lower through the products like egg, milk, compared to monoculture. mushroom, vegetables, honey and silkworm cocoons from the linked ➔ The ideal harvest time and activities in integrated farming. growth rate are different for ➔ It improves soil fertility and soil different crops. physical structure from appropriate crop rotation and using cover crops ➔ Unsuitable weather conditions. and organic compost. Animals that are not adequately ➔ It also minimizes the nutrient losses. ➔ It reduce weeds, insect pests and ➔ contained or chained can be diseases through appropriate crop dangerous. rotation. Apiculture the maintenance of honeybees and hives - provides farmers and hobbyists with a variety of enterprises including production of beeswax, honey and other edible bee products; crop pollination services, and the sale of bees to other beekeepers.
Beekeeping is an agro-based activity which is being undertaken
by farmers/landless labours in rural area as an integrated farming practice. Beekeeping supplements income & employment generation and nutritional intake of rural population. apiculture & sunflower oil Beekeeping is very beneficial for oilseeds, especially sunflower seed. The bees are influenced into pollinating the sunflower while the sunflower nectar is of high protein that is essential for the bees.
honeybees could establish stable and long-term memory related to food scents inside the nest. They also knew that those in-hive memories could influence the bees’ choices about which plants to visit later.
To raise bees with a memory that would support later foraging on sunflowers, the researchers first developed a simple synthetic odorant mixture that the bees associated with the natural floral scent of sunflowers. Next, they fed the hives with scented food. They found that those early experiences and memories of the scent of sunflower influenced the bees’ later foraging preferences, as inferred by decoding their waggle dances. he bees’ training led them to visit sunflowers more. Those trained bees also brought more sunflower pollen back to the hive. This increased visitation and foraging on sunflowers also boosted the flowers’ production of seeds by 29 to 57 percent. Through this procedure, it is possible to bias honeybee foraging activity and increase yields significantly.
Saving our bees is not just about making less toxic environments for them, but too about focusing on what we feed them. Like us, they need a balanced diet. Pollen and nectar from a diverse choice of flowers; protein from pollen, and carbohydrates, sugars, from nectar and the sunflower nectar does all that. Better sunflower yield
sunflower self fertility, as measured by the
effects of autogamous pollination and genetic self compatibility, was found to vary between hybrids and between seasons. Of 24 hybrids tested under uniform fertile, irrigated conditions, only two achieved high yields without honey bees. Three were self fertile in terms of seed numbers. Seven achieved self fertility in terms of seed yield due to artifact effects, honey bee was the principal insect pollinator. THANKYOU
