Bee farming
Bee is naturally found in nature but keeping them in a cage with their natural demand is simply known as bee farming. The aim of bee farming is to get honey. More than 15,000 species of bee are found in the world. Traditionally honey is extracted from the hive that found in a random place. But now time has changed people start bee farming.
Honey bee is very healthy for our body. It works as a healing agent for our bodies. For the establishment of bee farming, we have to be careful if the bee does not get favorable conditions they move from that place.
History of Bee
Recently, Bee was found which has been dated 100 million years ago. It is found that they used to eat other insects. It is still in the case when bees become vegetarian and start to eat nectar from flowers.
The use of honey is found in different ancient books. Honey is used as a healer from ancient times. In Egyptian times people start to make a hive for bees but they are not much favorable for bees.
A man named Lorenzo Langstroth made a hive that is favorable for bees to make honey. This is how honey bee farming is a change from ancient to the modern period. The development of technology has become advanced. Bee farming is termed as advanced technology of keeping bees in a cage.
Things to do to start Bee farming
As a time past method of farming bee has also changed. All the consequences, the result, and benefits of farming should be in focus before doing any farming. Here, we are giving the proper technique that should implement for bee farming.
1.Proper place for Farming
The bee needs a sound environment that means a place with less noise or no noise. A proper environment where they can live.As the temperature falls below 16-degree Celsius bees stop moving out from hives. They can resist up to 50-degree celsius but if the temperature is above that then they stay in the hive.
The favorable temperature for the bee to live is 35-degree celsius. If the temperature starts low they generate heat from their body. If the temperature rise then they bring water and drop it over the hive to maintain temperature.
2.Hive with proper finishing
While making hive you have to focused on its structure. The outer cover of this structure should be polished by painting to protect from the season change. You should always care hive from external agents like insects and birds.
Hive with proper cover with wood and metal so that hive can withstand from external agent attack.
3.Quality Bee
You should be focused on the quality of the bee while buying. If the bee is active they eat a lot of nectar from flowers and fruits which produce a large scale of honey. so quality is necessary to get benefit from bee farming.
4.Maintain humidity
Humidity means the presence of water in the air. Bees release sweet in large amount which saturates the water droplet and falls from the top cover of the hive. It causes dryness in the bee. If the dryness is excess then it creates a problem in bee or may die.
So, care your hive make a suitable temperature and humidity.
5.Natural Factor
Natural factor-like wind, heavy rainfall, and disaster cause living of bees difficult. So, to cope up with these factors you should find out the proper area for farming.
Slope like land to avoid wind and to flow the heavy rainfall. This basic knowledge helps to make good bee farming.
6.Food for bees
The food for bees is nectar from flowers and fruit and sometimes they eat honey. If they are unable to go out of the hive then they eat honey. Honey produce in the hive is of different types. Some may be watery, some may be sour in taste and some may be sweet in taste.
If you eat sour honey then it causes diarrhea. So, be careful while you take out quality honey.
7.Queen bee
In one hive there must be one queen bee if there is two queen bee they bee start to divide themself and district each other. So, to make a good relation between bees there must be only one bee. You can clearly identify queen bees they are large in size than other bees. the queen bee is only to increase the number of bees and it only eats honey. You can clearly see the queen be in the picture.
If they're more than one bee then you should take out one queen bee from the hive.
8.Disease
Disease in bee may see time and again. There are mainly two kinds of diseases found in the bee. They are Wax battle and acarine.
To reduce this effect potassium permanganate and solitude vapor should be used.
How to extract honey
We can provide them artificial wax to store honey. In the old traditional method honey, itself makes wax to store honey. It takes a lot of time and effort. But if we provide them artificial wax then they can store honey in large quantity and quality.
If we provide artificial wax then there is less chance of mixing wax and honey. We can extract quality honey. Not only farming on a large scale but also we can apply this method in our house. It takes less area and we can extract more than 10 kg from a single box.
Honey is extracted by using a different technique, Here we are providing information on some equipment to extract honey.
- Beekeeping smoker
- Fullbody suit
- gloves
- Hive tool to take out the cover of the hive
How to Sell Honey in the Local Market?
-Honey is the best medicine for all people. All the people eat honey. Do the market research in the local area where they consume a lot of honey. So, you can directly contact the People or the seller.
You will get much profit if you direct contact with the people. People also refer to you if your bee quality is good.
Hope you will make a Good income from Bee Farming. Best of luck For the journey.
These are the Bee farming Technique in an advanced way. If you have any queries about bee farming in its management then you can comment down below.