Question

Does apiculture offer multiple advantages to farmers? List its advantages, if it is located near a place of commercial flower cultivation. Name the most common species of bee which is reared in India.Class XIIStrategies for enhancement in food production

Answer 1

    Yes, apiculture offers mulitple advantages to farmers,they are: 
 i.  Honey is a food of high nutritive value and also finds use in the indigenous systems of medicine.      
ii. Honeybee also produces beeswax, which finds many uses in industry, such as in the preparation of cosmetics and polishes of various kinds.    
iii. The increased demand of honey has led to large-scale beekeeping practices; it has become an established income generating industry, whether practiced on a small or on a large scale.  

           Keeping beehives in crop fields during flowering period increases pollination efficiency and improves the yield–beneficial both from the point of view of crop yield and honey yield.    

            The most common species which is reared in India is Apis indica

Answer 2

Advantages of beekeeping as an income generation activity. ... Beekeeping has positive ecological consequences. Bees play an important role in the pollination of many flowering plants, thus increasing the yield of certain crops such as sunflower and various fruits. Honey is a delicious and highly nutritious food.