Question

gather information about apiculture centre

Answer 1

Beekeeping is one of the more universal agricultural endeavors. Bees are found on all continents, oustide of Antartica. Bees work a dual agricultural role by both producing honey and aiding in the pollination of flowering crops. Although much work and study has focused on improving the practice of beekeeping, or apiculture, it is still possible and prevelant to manage beehives at a very low level of technological and capital input. Their cosmopolitan distribution, multipurpose nature and relative simplicity in managment combine to make bees a natural agricultural supplement for many types of farm system in developing countries.
In this page we will adress several issues concerning the application of beekeeping in development projects. Given the great diversity among bees and beekeepers, it will not be possible for us to cover the apicultue of every culture, country or variety of bee. Instead we will focus on some general topics, and provide supplemenatry material for each of those topics.
In short, beekeeping is so cool because it can work almost anywhere. It is multi-functional; bees provide honey, a high energy food supplement that can be sold to bring cash into a small farm. Bees also provide wax, which has almost unlimited uses. Both honey and wax are valued for their medicinal use in traditional cultures. Bees also probvide a valuable ecological service through their role as a pollinator.

Answer 2

Apiculture is the culturing and maintenance of honey bees, beehives, and bee colonies using man-made methods. These honey bees are grown for extracting honey, beeswax, royal jelly, pollen to pollinate other crops etc.

The most common type of honey bees that were used in the apiculture center was Apis Indica, also known as the common Indian bee. They are known to produce around 6 - 7 pounds of honey per honeycomb.

A few combs of Apis Mellifera were also found at the center, which is also known as the European bee. It was the best used commercial type of honey bee.

From the information given by the center, the lifecycle of the honey bee starts with the queen bee laying the eggs. The eggs hatch into the larvae inside the cells which are fed by the worker bees. The worker bees then seal the cells with wax and the larvae form a cocoon and grow into a pupa. This pupa then grows into an adult bee and leaves the cells.

Two types of beehives were present - Fixed hive and moveable hives. There are wax sheets which attract the bees for preparing the combs. The honey extractor uses centrifugal force to extract the honey from the combs without causing damage to the combs.