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Source: The Hindu (http://www.hinduonnet.com/2009/08/13/stories/2009081350650200.htm)
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Bee-keepers need to enhance their capacity to make a good living

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KORAPUT: Bee-keepers in the State have to gear up to maximise the utilisation of its inherent potentiality in producing huge amount of honey for its diversified flora and fauna suitable for the honey bees, L.R.Verma, former Vice-Chancellor of Horticulture University, Solan said in Koraput on Monday. He was attending the regional seminar on awareness and motivation for development of bee-keeping in Orissa being organised by Sarvoday Samiti in association with Lee Bee Foundation for Advancement of Bee-keeping and Agro Enterprises (LABA) with the support of National Bee Board in the DNK conference hall. While the bee-keepers in other states particularly in the northern parts of the country were harvesting honey by managing more than 10,000 colonies of bees, the bee-keepers in Koraput district do the business by keeping only 20 to 30 colonies of bees, he added.
Bee-keepers would not get any lucrative income by managing less number of bee colonies and hence they need to enhance their interest and capacity to make a good living from the business.
The farmers also need to adopt the policy of migratory bee-keeping rather than keeping the bees in a single environment for the entire year.
This would facilitate the bees to maximise their potential for getting exposed to a new environment, he added.

Guidelines

While highlighting the importance of developing good practices by the bee-keepers for a better production, H. D. Sharma, Director, Horticulture Department, Government of Orissa said that the policies and guidelines laid down by the National Bee Board also need to be simplified for the best understanding of the common farmers.
Without having a clear, objective guidelines and attractive policies, bee-keeping might not be possible to be replicated as expected among large sections of the people in the State, he feared. Bee-keepers from Koraput, Malkangiri, Nowrangpur and Kalahandi attended the seminar.

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