Question

What is apiculture? How is it important is our lives? (NCERT)

Answer 1

Apiculture:

Apiculture is the practice of bee-keeping for the production of various products such as honey, bee’s wax, etc.Honey is a highly nutritious food source and is used as an indigenous system of medicines.It is useful in the treatment of many disorders such as cold, flu, and dysentery.

Importance of apiculture to humans :

• The honey obtained from bees is used by human beings because of its food and medicinal value.
• Honey is also used in the preparation of bread, biscuits, cakes, alcoholic drinks and as fish and poultry food.
• Bee wax obtained is used in the manufacture of cosmetics, paints, face creams, ointments, insulators, polishes and for laboratory microtomy.
• In addition to these, bees perform natural cross pollination which leads to an increase in yield of plant products due to hybridization. This is useful in agriculture and horticulture.