Bengal govt to provide training to farmers in honeybees rearing

Kolkata, Mar 29 (KNN) Creating more opportunities for farmers in honeybee rearing, the Bengal Government is setting up training for farmers to enable them to rear honeybees.

The state government is planning to make the training opportunities available in all the districts of Bengal.

Worldwide, honeybees have been severely affected by the changes in environmental conditions, so much so that productions of honey and beeswax have come down majorly.

The state government has initiated a four-day course for 100 farmers in Naikuri block of Purba Medinipur district. After the completion of training, each farmer would be handed over, by the State Government, two boxes of honeybees.

“Today’s youth have largely forsaken the often dangerous method of collecting honey from inside deep forests. As a result, the production of honey and beeswax has come down, so much so that a large portion of the requirement of the State has to be imported from foreign countries,” Mamata Banerjee led AITC said.

Through this honeybee-rearing programme, the State Government has thus provided a three-pronged solution: employment generation through the rearing and selling of products derived from honeybees, conservation of foreign exchange and maintaining the balance of the environment (since the already less number of honeybees need not be exploited).