Beekeeping for Sustainable Economic Development of India: Challenges and Opportunities

IF 1.8 4区 综合性期刊 Q2 MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENCES
D. P. Abrol
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Apiculture, in conjunction with agriculture, offers great scope for income generation through beekeeping. Pollinators provide pollination services that are crucial for enhancing crop productivity and sustaining ecosystem services. Honeybees are the important pollinators of various fruits, vegetables, oilseeds, pulses and fibre crops. In order to achieve sufficient pollination to improve productivity of crops, beekeeping industry needs encouragement. In addition to providing valuable products like honey, beeswax, nectar, pollen, propolis, royal jelly and other products, beekeeping helps to provide additional source of income and employment generation to rural masses. As per estimates only 10% of the existing potential for beekeeping has been utilized in the country and there is much untapped potential. India has a potential of over 200 million bee colonies as against 3.4 million colonies at present which can provide employment to over 6 million rural families. Organised honey collection using modern techniques can provide additional 120,000 tons of honey and 10,000 tons of beeswax from the forests. This can provide employment to 5 million tribal families. Increasing honeybee colonies shall not only increase production of bee products but aso will ensure sustainability of food production through enhanced agricultural and horticultural crop production. Beekeeping industry and its expansion faces several challenges which need to be addressed to make this industry more profitable.

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养蜂业促进印度经济可持续发展:挑战与机遇
养蜂业与农业相结合,为通过养蜂创收提供了巨大空间。传粉昆虫提供的授粉服务对提高作物产量和维持生态系统服务至关重要。蜜蜂是各种水果、蔬菜、油籽、豆类和纤维作物的重要授粉者。为了实现充分授粉以提高作物产量,养蜂业需要鼓励。除了提供蜂蜜、蜂蜡、花蜜、花粉、蜂胶、蜂王浆和其他产品等有价值的产品外,养蜂业还有助于为农村大众提供额外的收入来源和就业机会。据估计,印度仅利用了现有养蜂潜力的 10%,还有许多潜力尚未开发。印度有超过 2 亿群蜜蜂的潜力,而目前只有 340 万群,可为 600 多万农村家庭提供就业机会。利用现代技术有组织地采集蜂蜜可以从森林中额外提供 120 000 吨蜂蜜和 10 000 吨蜂蜡。这可以为 500 万个部落家庭提供就业机会。增加蜜蜂群不仅能提高蜂产品产量,还能通过提高农业和园艺作物产量确保粮食生产的可持续性。养蜂业及其扩张面临着若干挑战,需要加以解决,以使该产业更加有利可图。
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Journal of the Indian Institute of Science
Journal of the Indian Institute of Science MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENCES-
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期刊介绍: Started in 1914 as the second scientific journal to be published from India, the Journal of the Indian Institute of Science became a multidisciplinary reviews journal covering all disciplines of science, engineering and technology in 2007. Since then each issue is devoted to a specific topic of contemporary research interest and guest-edited by eminent researchers. Authors selected by the Guest Editor(s) and/or the Editorial Board are invited to submit their review articles; each issue is expected to serve as a state-of-the-art review of a topic from multiple viewpoints.
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