Honey Bee

• Social insect
• A colony consist with three casts
• Queen (female)
• Workers (female)
• Drone (Male)
• Live on combs made of wax

Introduction to Beekeeping

Bee keeping,

is the science & the art of keeping bees, to obtain bee honey & other by products or for the purpose of pollination

Bee keeping,

• Provide valuable food, especially to rural populations
• Provide remunerative employment
• Earn much needed foreign exchange
• Require no large investment
• Contribute to pollination and thus crop production
• Require practically no space on the farm
• History of Beekeeping
• Hunting of bee honey from the jungle was practiced before earliest written history