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| SKUAST Jammu organizes awareness programme | | |  Early Times Report
Reasi, Dec 10: One-day awareness camp on beekeeping under NABARD funded project “Mobilization of Farmers through Development of Bee Village for Collective Marketing of Organic Honey” was organized by Division of Entomology, Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology at Bharakh, (Pouni) Reasi on 10-12-2020 under the esteemed encouragement of Vice Chancellor Dr. J. P. Sharma. The programme was organized in collaboration with KVK Reasi and Department of Agriculture, Reasi.
Sunil Singh Dy. Director Floriculture and Landscaping was chief guest of the programme. Speaking on the occasion, Sunil Singh emphasized the farmers to adopt beekeeping to increases their income resources.
He expressed satisfaction that beekeeping is being well adopted in the country for increasing crop productivity.
Dr. Devinder Sharma, PI of the Project said that Beekeeping has been useful in pollination of crops, thereby, increasing income of the farmers/beekeepers by way of increasing crop yield and providing honey and other beehive products, viz. royal jelly, bee pollen, propolis, bees wax, etc. that serves a source of livelihood for rural poor.
Therefore, honeybees/ beekeeping has been recognized as one of the important inputs for sustainable development of agriculture/ horticulture. He said that bees are vital links of our ecosystem and therefore promoting apiculture is of huge importance for our environment.
He emphasized the farmers to adopt beekeeping to increases their income resources and stated that Jammu and Kashmir is one of the most important and suitable beekeeping places for the stationary and migratory beekeeping because of its favorable climatic conditions and diverse natural environment.
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