Revolution In Beekeeping
By Pekma Angchuk Bhutia Bsc Program In the nineteen-twenties, Mahatma Gandhi visualized the rural self–employment imbued with patriotism. Cottage industries, farming and bee-keeping are nurtured as economic resources. The eminent cytogeneticist and bee scientist (NCA_1970-⁼76) envisaged high crop productivity by increasing the beehives from 50,000 colonies to 6 million by 2000 AD. But unfortunately, the Pink Revolution (Honey bee-keeping) never had a takeoff in India, a colour that was picked up around the globe. Honey beekeeping and Indian nationalistic agriculture – all Gandhian Philosophy are disappearing quickly. Such a scenario promoted the analysis of beekeeping around the world vis-à-vis-India. Why bee keeping? People have been using honey from the earliest times of Indian Ayurvedic and Western Yunani. Man is benefitted, so are the bees, which instead of being hunted and killed, establish a symbiotic affection by protecting the bees. The honey produced has high medicina