Snapshot

Honey production and marketing has sprung forth as one of the most important agro based industry that helps to increase the crop yield manifold. The peculiarities of theis agrobased industry are that it does not require any raw material from the artisan like other industries. The raw materials are in the form of nectar and pollen from flowers which is freely available in nature. Beekeeping can be started by anyone who takes a keen interest may be skilled, unskilled having their own land or not.  Beekeeping may even be started with a single colony which can be increased to thousands of them. 

Bee species regions

Regions

Bee species

North Ø Delhi Ø Uttar Pradesh Ø Haryana Ø Punjab Ø Himachal Pradesh Ø Uttarakhand Ø Jammu and Kashmir

APIS MELLIFERA (The Europen or Italian bee) Ø APIS CeranaIndica (The India hive bee)

South Ø Andhra Pradesh Ø Karnataka Ø Kerala Ø TamilNadu Ø Pondicherry Ø Andaman and Nicobar

APIS CeranaIndica (The Indian hive bee)

East Ø Bihar and West Bengal Ø Orissa Ø Chhattisgarh Ø Jharkhand Ø All North Eastern States(8)

APIS MELLIFERA Ø APIS CeranaIndica (The Indian hive bees)

West Ø Rajasthan Ø Gujarat Ø Maharashtra Ø Madhya Pradesh Ø Goa

APIS MELLIFERA (The European or Italian bee) Ø APIS CeranaIndica (The India hive bee)

 

  • Rs 706 crores

    Honey export value from India in 2015-16