Ncert Exercises & Solutions

Q.74 Does apiculture offer multiple advantages to farmers? List its advantages if it is located near

a place of commercial flower cultivation.

Yes, apiculture offers many advantages to farmers such as

(i) Honey produced by honeybees is @ food of high nutritive value

(ii) lt is used in the indigenous system of medicine,

(iii) Honeybee also produces beeswax, which Is used in the preparation of cosmetics and

polishes of various kinds.

If aplcuture Is done near a place of commercial flower cultivation it offers several

advantages. Bees are the pollinators of many crop species such as suntiower, Brassica,

apple and pear. Keeping beehives in crop fields during flowering period

(i) Increases pollination efficiency.

(ii) Improves the yield which is beneficial both from the point of view of crop yield and honey

yield.