Question

What do you exactly mean by apiculture

Answer 1

Apiculture is the management and study of honeybees,derived from the honeybee's Latin name Apis mellifera, meaning 'honey gatherer'.. The cultivation of bees on a commercial scale for the production of honey is called apiculture.

Answer 2

Apiculture is the keeping and maintaining of bees or bee colonies in man made hives in order to collect the products made by bees.

Apiculture is also called as Bee keeping and through this the bee keepers obtain bee products like honey, wax, paraffin, etc.

The Bees are specifically chosen specially for the purpose of producing honey and the varities of bees chosen are selected on the basis of their honey producing capacity and quality.

The bee species are Apis indica, Apis cerana, Apis dorsata, etc.