The 8th national beekeeping training workshop was organised by the Department of Zoology, Punjab University on Tuesday. The training workshop would provide an excellent orientation for beekeeping as a hobby and profitable enterprise for honey production for the landless and poor farmers as well as help in the diversification of farm production system through cross-pollination resulting in enhanced crop productivity.
A large number of people from both private and public sector including the department of Agriculture, Forest, Livestock, Education, Military Farms and Vocational Training Organisations etc attended the workshop. It is worth mentioning that in developed countries, honeybee colonies were rented by the fruit/crop growers for pollination purpose for diversification of farm production system.
In Pakistan honeybee farmers were facing serious difficulty in temporary placement of honeybee colonies near crop or orchard fields or forests. The main objective of participation of the multidisciplinary personnel was to help sensitise them about beekeeping and its benefits so as to develop awareness among them to solve problems of the beekeepers during migration of honeybee colonies on different floral belts in various localities.
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