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Chapter : 3. Improvement In Food Resources
Bee Keeping
Bee Keeping : Apiculture-Care and Management of Honeybees : Human beings obtain many commercial products from insects like honeybees. This is known as Apiculture. Honey has great importance for human beings because of its medicinal value, specially in disorders related to digestion, dysentery, vomiting and liver ailments. Bee farms or apiaries are established for commercial production of honey. Different varieties of bee are used for commercial production of honey. The Local Varieties of Bees : Apis cerana indica (commonly known as Indian bee). A. dorsata (the rock bee) and A.florae (little bee).