1. Scope of Bee-keeping 1

2. Scope of Apiculture
OR
Bee-Keeping
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4. Honey Bees and Beekeeping
Honey bees are, popular and economically
beneficial insects
For thousands of years man has plundered
honey bee colonies to get honey, bee larvae
and beeswax
Honey bees are commonly kept in artificial
hives throughout the Pakistan
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5. Types of Honey Bee
Three types
of bees in a
Beehive
Queen Drone Worker
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6. Development Time of Honey
Bee Castes
Days after laying egg
Stage Worker Queen Drone
Hatching 3 3 3
Cell Capped 8 8 10
Becomes A Pupa 11 10 14
Becomes An Adult 20 15 22.5
Emerges From Cell 21 16 24
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7. Beekeeping Equipment
One new hive with bees and basic
equipment costs about Rs.13000.
Hive parts are cut to standard
dimensions that mimic the space bees
naturally leave between their combs.
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8. Beehive
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9. Parts of Beehive
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10. Frame Lang’s troth
beehive
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11. Honey in Quran
After prophets revelation (wahi) is received by the Honey
Bees
•“Honey is a remedy for every illness and the Qur'an
Prophet (PBUH) is a remedy for all illness of the mind, therefore I
said: recommend to you remedies, the Qur'an and
honey.”(Bukhari)
Qur'an and •“And thy Lord taught the bee to build its cells in
Hadith refer to hills, on trees and in (men's) habitations.....there
honey as a healer issues from within their bodies a drink of varying
colors, wherein is healing for mankind.”
of disease.
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12. Honey bee Disease and
Pest
American •(AFB) is a bacterial disease of larvae and pupae
Infected larvae change color from a healthy pearly
Foulbrood
white to dark brown and die after they are capped.
(Terramycin)
European •(EFB) is a bacterial disease of larvae larvae infected
with EFB die before they are capped change to a
Foulbrood
creamy color and have a smooth "melted" appearance.
(Terramycin)
Chalk •Is a fungal disease of larvae. Infected larvae turn a
chalky white color, become hard then turn black. Chalk
brood
brood is most frequent during damp conditions in early
spring. Colonies usually recover on their own.
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13. Honey bee Disease and Pest
Tracheal Mites - These microscopic mites enter the tracheae (breathing tubes) of
young bees. Inside the tracheae, mites block air exchange and pierce the walls of
the tubes to suck blood. Symptoms Bees become weak, crawl at the hive entrance.
Infested colonies are treated with Miticur or special formulations of menthol.
Varroa Mites - These mites are about the size of a pin head and are copper in
color. Female mites cling to adult bees and suck their blood
Infested colonies almost always die within three to four years unless they are
treated
Colonies are treated with Apistan
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14. Buying and Moving Colonies
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15. Installing Packaged
Bees
Buy and packaged bees and queen and
transfer to new equipment
9000-22000 bees in two-five pound package
The queen cage has holes at both ends
plugged with cork,
sugar syrup as bees food(one part sugar: one
part water)
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16. Honey Bee Management
Bees store the honey as surplus that the beekeeper can
harvest
Feeding and medicating should be done January
through February
Queens resume laying eggs in January
Surplus nectar is available at mid-April
Properly medicate them, re-queen them and control
swarming
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18. Processing of Honey
Honey is sold as Equipment for honey
"extracted" honey - processing are
Equipment cost for
bottled, liquid honey • Uncapping knife
honey processing is • Uncapping tank
that has been
only Rs.43000 • Extractor
extracted from the • Strainer
combs • Storage tank
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19. Beekeeping a profitable
Business
Small Land
Less Time Required
• Four square feet of land is quite enough for a hive and
a small plot of twenty-five square feet could hold from
25 to 50 hives
Earning
• According to the survey conducted at Punjab university
honey research farms a person can earn Rs. 5000/-
per month in the fall season of honey. So just imagine
how much money you could make if you wanted to be a
full-time beekeeper
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21. PARC Survey
Pakistan Agriculture Research Council
•Honey is an important nutritive food containing
Benefits various kinds of sugar, protein, free amino acids,
minerals, trace elements, enzymes and vitamins
of Honey with a fairly high caloric value. Its main sugars -
laevulose and dextrose are absorbed directly into
the blood and provide rapid energy.
• Apis dorsata
Species of •
•
Apis
Apis
cerana
florea
Honeybee • Apis mellifera
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22. PARC Survey
Pakistan Agriculture Research Council
• 7,000 beekeepers are now
rearing exotic species, Apis
mellifera in the modern beehives
• There are about 300,000
Bee colonies producing 7,500 metric
Farming ton honey annually
• Northern areas, FATA and AJK
and can support 1,000,000
honeybee colonies
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23. Cost / Benefit of beekeeping
in Pakistan
Details Part time bee keeping Full time bee-keeping
No. of
Colonies 5 50 100 200
Capital
Expenditure Rs.27,700 Rs.265,000 Rs.538,000 Rs.1,047,000
Production
Cost Rs.5,610 Rs.105,500 Rs.211,800 Rs.375,700
Gross
Income Rs.8,250 Rs.220,000 Rs.439,500 Rs.879,000
Net Income Rs.2,640 Rs.114,500 Rs.227,700 Rs.503,300
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24. Break-Even Point
Details Part-time Full time
Beekeeper Beekeeper
No. of Colonies 24 86
Production 105500 375700
Expenditure
Gross income 105500 375700
Net Income (0) (0)
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25. Practical work
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26. Honey and its products
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27. Royal jelly (Rs.
6000/- Per kg)
Marhaba Honey
Shandor Honey
Bless Beri Honey
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28. Freezing of Honey
Fruits like citrus, Malta can be freeze in 5 months
Freezing depend on the quantity of Pollens
Honey freeze at temperature 13-----18 cg
To heat honey: it could be heat at 63 Cg
It can be heat though manual Electronic Oven
special for this purpose
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29. Medicinal Value
Hydrogen
Peroxide Applying
Honey as
Teeth
a Wound
Dressing
Stomacha
Allergies
che
Sore
Anemia
Throat
Heart
Skin
Diseases
High Headache
Blood s and
Pressure Migraine
Appetite
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30. Resource/References
Group survey at Punjab university Zoology dept.
Survey at Punjab • Advice by Prof. Nasreen Zafar (Head PU
university Honey Honey Dept.)
Bee research farm • Assistant Muabashar Hussain
• http://www.pyroenergen.com
• http://www.honey-health.com
Websites links • http://itotd.com/articles/218/honey-as-medicine
• http://www.alternative-medicine-
online.com/Health_Articles/honey_natural_treatment.html
• www.parc.gov.pk/faq/hbm.html
Qarshi Marhaba laboratories head office kot lakhpat
Lahore
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