- Bee-keeping or apiculture is the maintenance of hives of honeybees for the production of honey.
- Honey is a food of high nutritive value and also use in the indigenous systems of medicine.
- Honeybee also produces beeswax, which finds many uses in industry, such as in the preparation of cosmetics and polishes of various kinds.
The following points are important for successful bee-keeping:
(i) Knowledge of the nature and habits of bees,
(ii) Selection of suitable location for keeping the beehives,
(iii) Catching and hiving of swarms (group of bees),
(iv) Management of beehives during different seasons, and
(v) Handling and collection of honey and of beeswax.
