This manual about managing crop pollination using honeybees, is written in easy to follow language and is full of explanatory diagrams. It is written to serve as a guide to field extensionists and farmers, to promote wider use of honeybees for crop pollination. The manual consists of seven chapters supporters by illustrations. Through these chapters, the manual explains how honeybees can be used effectively for cross-pollination to enhance productivity and yield of crops. It also describes the reasons how different kinds of bees are important crop pollinators; how bees pollinate crop; techniques for managing a honeybee colony, its reproduction/multiplication (swarming) and absconding and species of honeybees in India.
The manual also describes types of beehives including traditional fixed-comb hives and modern movable-frame hives; role of hive bees in crop pollination and why hive bees are better crop pollinators than wild bees. It describes ways to manage hive bees for pollination of crops. By providing examples of managed crop pollination using hive bees and wild bee species: economic value of bee pollination; the manual suggests ways that crop growers and beekeepers can protect bees from their harmful effects.
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