Question

write an essay on apiculture

Answer 1

Apiculture is an important part of agriculture which has immense potential for supplementing farmers' income and providing employment to rural youth. It also helps in improving the quality and quantity of the crop-yield.

Honey is rich in vitamins, nutritious and of high medicinal value. Each l (X) gram of honey contains 60 mile go of vitamin B, 6 mg of vitamin B1, 5 mg of vitamin C and 32 mg of nicotine acid with caloric value of 319 calories. Honey is exhilarating, antiseptic and a good medicine for a number of diseases like acidity, dyspepsia, diabetes, anaemia, calculi etc.

According to FAO the total production of honey in the world during 1991-92 was 15 lakh tones of which only 1 lakh tones (0.66 per cent of world production) came from India. The country has potentiality of producing about 1.5 to 2 lakh tones of honey annually. Present production of honey in the country is about 27,000 tons per year.

Major portion of it is obtained from Apis Dorsata, though the share of apiary honey is increasing every year. Most of the honey produced in India is collected by tribal from forests and hilly areas.

Answer 2

Apiculture is the practice of maintaining bees and producing honey and beeswax.

Essay on apiculture:

• Apiculture is the cultivation of honeybees for honey and wax. Honey is used as both a natural antibiotic and a food source, while the wax is used in polishing and cosmetic products. As a nutritional supplement, bee pollen capsules are employed. Apiculture has provided a living for many individuals.
• A beekeeper maintains bees to collect honey and other hive products like beeswax, propolis, pollen, and royal jelly, fertilize crops, or breed bees for sale to other beekeepers. Beekeeping has evolved as a viable industry due to the rising market potential for honey and its products.
• Bees help pollinate crops. The agricultural advantages provided by honey bees are estimated to be 10 to 20 times the entire value of honey and beeswax. In actuality, bee pollination adds around $15 billion to agricultural value. Honey bees swarm across farms in the United States like flying dollar bills.

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