Honey, a product of beekeeping has become an agricultural enterprise these days. Explain

CBSE Class 9 CBSE Class 9 Science
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Honey, a product of beekeeping has become an agricultural enterprise these days. Explain.

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Beekeeping is the rearing, caring and management of honeybees to obtain products like honey, beeswax, etc. Beekeeping has become extremely popular as an agricultural enterprise because

  • Along with getting honey on a commercial scale, other products like wax, royal jelly and bee venom are also obtained from beekeeping.
  • Beekeeping requires low investments due to which farmers, along with agriculture also do beekeeping to generate additional income.