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How would you explain to the farmers that apiculture is both easy and economically beneficial to them?

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Bee-keeping can be practised in any area where there are sufficient pastures of some wild shrubs, fruit orchards and cultivated crops. Beehives can be kept in the courtyard or veranda or even on the roof of the house. Bee - keeping is not labour intensive. Keeping beehives in the crop fields during flowering season increases honey yield. Since, there is an increased demand for honey, it is an income generating industry both on small scale and large scale. Honeybees are pollinators of many of our crop plants, e.g. sunflower, apple, pear and mustard. Hence, keeping beehives in crop areas during flowering period increases pollination and improves both crop and honey yield.