Honey and wax production through beekeeping, or apiculture, can provide additional income to farmers. Keeping more bees allows for greater honey yields and profits. Honey and wax have national market demand from households and industries. Apiculture requires minimal space and materials to start small with a queen bee, and skills can be learned within a family to build larger operations over time.
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Honey and wax production through beekeeping, or apiculture, can provide additional income to farmers. Keeping more bees allows for greater honey yields and profits. Honey and wax have national market demand from households and industries. Apiculture requires minimal space and materials to start small with a queen bee, and skills can be learned within a family to build larger operations over time.
Honey and wax production through beekeeping, or apiculture, can provide additional income to farmers. Keeping more bees allows for greater honey yields and profits. Honey and wax have national market demand from households and industries. Apiculture requires minimal space and materials to start small with a queen bee, and skills can be learned within a family to build larger operations over time.
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Honey and wax production through beekeeping, or apiculture, can provide additional income to farmers. Keeping more bees allows for greater honey yields and profits. Honey and wax have national market demand from households and industries. Apiculture requires minimal space and materials to start small with a queen bee, and skills can be learned within a family to build larger operations over time.
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What is it? It is something you can do as an extension to your farming activities.It involves keeping bees to get honey and wax as a final product.
What can I earn? (gross, net)
The more the number of bees you keep, the more the quantity of honey produced and hence more the profit.
What is the market for it?
Honey and wax have the potential of being sold at a local haat(market) as well as in the national market because of their demand in the household as well as the industrial sector.
What is required? (raw materials, skills, technology)
A little bit of space, a queen bee and some flowers around. Your family can run this business. But you can have a larger farm by adding as you go.