Apiculture: History

In this PowerPoint, included a history of beekeeping, the economic importance of honeybees, and today's scenario of beekeeping. This PowerPoint may be informative to all the learners.

1. Presented
by
Dr. Arun B. Sawarkar
1. Bee Biology
B.P. Arts, S.M.A. Science & K.K.C. Commerce
College, Chalisgaon, Dist-Jalgaon(MS)
(History)

2. Apiculture is the science of rearing honey bees.
Or
Apiculture is the scientific breeding of honeybee
for the commercial production of honey and bees
wax.
What is Apiculture?
Api (Apis)+ culture (rearing)
INTRODUCTION

3. Importance of bee keeping
♦It provides honey-a valuable nutritional food, additives in many food,
bakery products and beverages. It also used in cosmetic, pharmaceutical and
medical field.
♦It provides bees wax-which has many uses as preparation of candles,
polishing materials, cosmetics, crayons, modeling materials and many
pharmaceutical products.
♦It provides other products as pollenand royal jellyare good energizer and
stimulant while propolisand bee venomare important in medical field.
♦It increases agriculture crop production.More than 40% of crop production
is depends on honeybee pollination.
♦1/3
rd
of our diet comes from bee-pollinated crops.
♦It provides an excellent source of incomefor the landless farmers, tribals,
rural people and unemployed youth also.

4. 15,000yearoldpaintingtheCaveof
theSpidernearValencia,Spain
showsawomanonaropeladder
gatheringhoneyfromabeenest
HISTORY
(World)
Thousandyearsago,theancient
Egyptianswereskilledintheartof
beekeeping,sincetheyconsidered
honey,animportantpartoftheirdiet.

5. ThehoneybeeshavebeenmentionedinancientVedasand
Buddhistscriptures,popularepicsastheRamayana,the
MahabharataandtheQuran.
Useofhoneyasfood,medicineandindifferentformsisa
traditionalpracticeinIndia.
RockpaintingsfoundincentralIndia(MadhyaPradesh)have
describedhoneyhuntingdatingtoMesolithicperiod15,000to
11,000BC.
HISTORY
(India)

6. In1851,L.L.LangstrothinUSAdesignedfirsttrulymovable
framehiveforApismellifera.Thishiveispopularoverallthe
worldas‘LangstrothWoodenhive’.
In1910,Rev.FatherNewtondesignedasmallhivesuitablefor
Indianhoneybee,Apisceranaindica.Thishivewhichwasnamed
afterhimas“NewtonHive”.
TheEuropeanbee,A.melliferawassuccessfullyintroducedand
establishedinourcountrysince1960.
Atpresentboththehivebeespeciesarebeingusedinmodern
beekeeping.
History:
Modern beekeeping

7. Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) in 1956.
Central Bee Research and Training Institute (CBRTI) at Pune in
1962.
Indian Council of Agriculture Research (ICAR), Pusa, New
Delhi under KVIC started funding the beekeeping projects to
raise the industrial status of apiculture in India.
National Bee Board (NBB) on 19
th
July, 2000.
National Bee Board (NBB) was reconstituted in 13
th
June 2006.
The main objective of the board is to improve crop productivity and
honey production through scientific beekeeping for increasing the
income of the beekeepers and farmers.
History:
Apiculture under
Government of India

8. 1,60,000 MT Honey/year
70,000 MT honey/year
China (4,57,203)
Turkey (1,14,113)
Argentina (79,668)
Iran (77,567)
Ukraine (71,279)
USA (69,104)
India (67,442)
Russia (65,006)
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Major Honey Producers Annual production
{Report 2018: Food and Agriculture Organization of the
United Nations (FAOSTAT)}
Apiculture in the world

9. India has exported 61,333.88 MT of natural honey to the world for the
worth of Rs. 732.16 Crore (2018-19).
3lakhemployeesextractingabout94,500Metrictonsofhoneyfrom
30lakhbeecolonies.
Presently,200millionBeecoloniesarerequiredforenhancingtheir
yieldwhichwillprovideemploymentto215lakhpersonsand
produce10milliontonsofhoneyandincreaseincropproduction.
In India, Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, West
Bengal, Bihar, Rajasthan and Andhra Pradesh
Apiculture in the India

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