Answer:
yes apiculture offers many advantages to
farmers such as
(i)
Honey produced by honeybees is a food of high nutritive value.
(ii) It is .used in the indigenous
system of medicine.
(iii)
Honeybee also produces beeswax, which is used in the preparation of cosmetics and
polishes of various kinds.
If apiculture is done near a place of
commercial flower cultivation it offers several advantages. Bees are the
pollinators of many crop species such as sunflower, brassica,apple and pear.
Keeping beehives in crop fields during flowering period
(i) Increases pollination
efficiency.
(ii)
Improves the yield which is beneficial both from the point of view of crop
yield and honey yield.
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