National Bee Board (N.B.B.)
The Ministry of Agriculture, Department of Agriculture Cooperation & Farmer’s Welfare established the National Bee Board (NBB) in the year 2000. Though the main motto of the board is to improve pollination and crop productivity through beekeeping, it attributes the following:
- Research and Development of honey processing units
- To sketch schemes and establish training through research institutions
- Production of quality honey
- The innovation of Phyto-Sanitary standards in terms of Bee-Product quality
- Migration of honeybee colonies
- Enabling the longer and safe migration of honeybees
- Creating awareness and organising training
- Research and training on the disease-prone and its medication.
NBHM
The main objective of NBHM is to promote holistic growth of beekeeping industry for income & employment generation for farm and non-farm households, to enhance agriculture/ horticulture production, developing infrastructural facilities, including setting up of Integrated Beekeeping Development Centre (IBDC)s/CoE, honey testing labs, bee disease diagnostic labs, custom hiring centres, Api-therapy centres, nucleus stock, bee breeders, etc. and empowerment of women through beekeeping.
The scheme also aims to create awareness about scientific bee keeping, post-harvest management of beekeeping, beehive products, including collection, processing, storage, marketing, value addition, etc