The business of bee-keeping


A young entrepreneur of Dhalavaipuram near Rajapalayam in Virudhunagar district of Tamil Nadu has made bee-keeping a joyful hobby and a means of livelihood. He has taken apiculture to the drawing rooms of homes and offices. The beehive designed by him with wood and glass can be kept inside a home or an office and children, even adults, can watch with amazement the process of honey collection and storage. Bees enter and exit the hive through a passage provided outside. 

The glass beehive is part of the efforts of C. Jeyakumar, who owns Shamee Bee Farm, to provide quality honey to consumers. What was started as a hobby in his eighth standard has now become a full-time vocation. His traditional bee boxes are now found in many parts of the country, including Jammu and Kashmir, Rajasthan and Himachal Pradesh. 

The boxes, made of wood, are placed in farms on specific months for nectar collection as Mr. Jeyakumar specialises in extracting flower-wise honey for sale. It is the nectar from leucas aspera (thumbai flower) in January; moringa oleifera (drumstick) and rubber in February-March and Jamun in June in the southern States of Tamil Nadu and Kerala. In the northern States, nectar is collected in sesame, mustard, orange, saffron and red date farms............Read more

 

Source: The Hindu


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