Commercial Beekeeping

Beekeeping/apiculture is the maintenance of honey bee colonies in beehives. Beekeepers keep honey bees to collect honey and other bee products like beeswax propolispollenroyal jelly bee venompollination of crops raising queens and other sources of beekeeping income. Bee hives are kept in an apiary or bee yard. Bees play a vital role in the natural and agricultural ecosystems. Besides their valuable and healthy products bees and other pollinators like butterflies help in pollinating approximately three-quarters of plants that produce about 90% of world food. The person who maintains the beehives is known as an apiarist or a beekeeper. The main goal of this manuscript is to provide complete and simplified reach out to understanding of the basic knowledge of beekeeping to the students of B.Sc.(Ag.) Hons final year.