कोरोनावायरस की वजह से होनेवाले बेरोजगारों को रोजगार देगा मधुमक्खी पालन !
कोरोनावायरस का असर सिर्फ इंसानों के स्वास्थ्य पर ही नहीं, बल्कि यह दुनिया भर में रोजगार के लिए भी खतरनाक साबित होने वाला है। संयुक्त राष्ट्र ने चेतावनी दी है कि दुनिया भर में कोरोनावायरस की महामारी 2.5 करोड़ लोगों का रोजगार छीन लेगी। यह पहले से जारी वैश्विक आर्थिक संकट में कोढ़ में खाज की तरह साबित होगी। इससे वैश्विक अर्थव्यवस्था को 3.6 लाख करोड़ डॉलर का झटका लगेगा। संयुक्त राष्ट्र ने कहा कि इससे आर्थिक और श्रम संकट गहराएगा। चीन में जनवरी-फरवरी माह में 50 लाख लोगों ने कोरोना के आर्थिक दुष्प्रभाव के चलते नौकरी गंवा दी।
कोरोनावायरस की वजह से होनेवाले बेरोजगारों को रोजगार देगा मधुमक्खी पालन !
अतः इस वैश्विक आर्थिक संकट में अगर मधुमक्खी पालन को अपनाया जाए तो न केवल भारत की अर्थव्यवस्था को मदद मिलेगा बल्कि रोजगार तथा आमदनी को बनाए रखने के लिए तत्काल मददगार साबित होगा और अर्थव्यवस्था को होने वाले नुकसान को काफी हद तक कम किया जा सकता है।
बेरोजगारों को रोजगार देगा मधुमक्खी पालन
भारत में मधुमक्खी पालन, जो पहले वन आधारित गतिविधि थी, पर आज यह एक सफल और संपन्न कृषि व्यवसाय के रूप में विकसित हुआ है । मधुमक्खी एक कुशल परागण एजेंट के रूप में फसल उत्पादकता में वृद्धि के लिए जिम्मेदार हैं।
मधुमक्खी पालन से होने वाले फायदे
मधुमक्खी पालन एक महत्वपूर्ण गतिविधि है जो कृषि को बढ़ावा देती है और दुनिया भर में ग्रामीण समुदायों को पोषण और आर्थिक सुरक्षा प्रदान करता है। यहाँ तक की भूमिहीन लोग मधुमक्खी पालन को एक पेशे के रूप में अपना सकते हैं। मधुमक्खी पालन से उत्पादन में मदद मिलती है अतिरिक्त आय और एकीकृत कृषि प्रणाली का एक अभिन्न अंग है। इसके अलावा शहद,पोलन, प्रोपोलिस, रॉयल जेली , बीवैनम, बीजवैक्स और अन्य बहुमूल्य उत्पाद प्राप्त होता है | मधुमक्खियों की परागण क्रिया महत्वपूर्ण हैं जो पर परागण के माध्यम से अधिकांश खेती की गई फसलों में। 20-80 प्रतिशत तक की उपज बढ़ोतरी में योगदान करते हैं मधुमक्खी पालन कृषि उत्पादकता, रोजगार सृजन, ग्रामीण विकास,पोषण सुरक्षा एवं जैव विविधता बनाए रखने में महत्वपूर्ण भूमिका निभाती है और पर्यावरण स्थिरता प्रदान करता है। इस प्रकार मधुमक्खी पालन कई फायदे प्रदान करता है। स्वरोजगार अपना कर बेरोजगारी दूर करे भारतीय युवा.
Beekeeping: selection of bees & life cycle of bees
Selection of good quality honey bees
Selection of good quality bees depending upon floral conditions and capability of investments beekeeping is done by either of two cavity dwelling species Apis cerena and Apis mellifera. However, quality of bees, particularly queen plays a major role in bee management.
Following recommendations on the selection of bee colonies:
Stocks used to multiply honeybee colonies should be disease resistant, high honey yielding, young, healthy and of high egg laying capacity queen etc.
Beekeepers should be well trained on the selection of good quality bees.
Every beekeeper should keep record of his bee colonies and mark the colonies with above mentioned attributes for the purpose of multiplication of queens and new colonies.
Beekeeper should replace the queens every second (two year old) year with the queen bred from selected colonies.
Only disease free bee colonies to be bought from the existing beekeepers.
To prevent inbreeding, capture few bee colonies from their natural abode in forests for further breeding/ multiplication or manage separate mating yards.
Diseases free bee colonies should be bought from reliable and traceable source, which is traceable to its original beekeeper.
It is recommended that the colonies of honey bees sourced should have high egg laying capacity queen, high honey yielding, young, healthy and disease resistant honeybees should be selected and reproduced.
Colonies should be kept with good quality productive and prolific queen.
A Honey bee life cycle has four main distinct stages or phases, egg, larva, pupa and finally an adult. The colonies of bees consist of three castes, Queen Bee, worker bee and drones (males). Queen bees lay eggs, worker bees are non-egg producing bees and drones are meant for mating purposes.
Eggs and Larvae
The total developmental time for a Queen bee is 16 days, 21 days for worker bee and approximately 24 days for drone or male bee.
Egg Stage
First stage of development in the life cycle is egg stage. Eggs are very minute and have appearance of poppy seeds in shape. Every egg has an opening on the broader side that enables a sperm to penetrate in. Hatching of eggs normally occurs after three days of egg laying.
This stage generally lasts up to nine odd days. During this stage, hatched larva is almost microscopic in size without legs and eyes. Larva is fed on a diet known as royal jelly for initial two days. As the third day progresses larvae that are destined to develop into queen bees continue to be fed on royal jelly, while worker larvae are fed on honey, water and pollens, called the bee bread. Larval stage for queen bee lasts for 5.5 days, 6 days for worker bees and 6.5 days for drones.
Reorganization of tissues massively takes place during pupa stage. Worm-like body has now three distinct parts of the body. This stage usually lasts for 7.5 days for queen bee, 12 days for worker bee and 14.5 days for drone bee (male bee).
All three types of bees are now fully grown and are fully ready to accomplish their tasks. A typical colony of honey bee consists of 50,000 to 60,000 worker bees, 600 to 1000 drone bees and only 1 queen bee.
Every honeybee colony is a family and each colony contains three adult castes: egg-laying queens, sperm-producing male drones and non reproductive female workers.
There is normally only one queen in each colony,she is recognised by her long and slender abdomen. The queen lays one egg in each cell and may produce up to 2500 eggs per day during the high season. The bee larva hatches from an egg, grows and then becomes a pupa in the cell.
Eggs
Female honeybees are developed from fertilized eggs. The drones (that are males) are developed from un-fertilized eggs. They usually take 24 days to develop. The bigger cells made during swarming season at the lower end of the frame are drone cells.
Worker and Drone cells
Worker bees are the most copious members of the colony. A healthy colony may have thousands of worker bees or more during growth. There primary function is to build and maintain the comb, collecting necessities for the colony and care for the brood. They build the comb from wax secreted from glands in their abdomen. In the bee colony all worker bees are sterile females.
Worker Bees
Drones are stingless male honeybees. They are, defenceless, and fed by worker bees as they are unable to feed themselves. They have no pollen baskets or wax glands and cannot secrete royal jelly. The drones only serve for reproduction purpose, they mate with a virgin queen and then they die.
Drone
What is swarming ?
The honeybee colony multiplies through swarming. Swarming is a natural process in the life of a honey bee colony and Swarming is essential to the bees’ survival. If the bees becomes overcrowded in beehive. usually in season having availability of ample nectar and pollen. The old queen leaves the hive together with half of the bees in the colony. To create a swarm, an old honey bee queen leaves the hive with about half of the hive’s worker bees, while a new queen remains in the old hive with the rest of the workers. A honey bee swarm may contain hundreds or thousands of worker bees and a single queen. Swarming honey bees fly temporarily, and then cluster on shrubs and tree branches.
Swarm resting on a branch
Pollination by Honey Bees
Honey bees are good pollinators for many reasons. Their hairy bodies trap pollen and carry it between flowers. The bees require large quantities of nectar and pollen to rear their young, and they visit flowers regularly in large numbers to obtain these foods. In doing so, they concentrate on one species of plant at a time and serve as good pollinators for this reason. Their body size enables them to pollinate flowers of many different shapes and sizes. Through the pollination of flowering crops the honeybees are regarded as highly valuable for all living beings.
Beekeeping (or apiculture) from Latin: apis “bee”) is the maintenance of honey bee colonies, commonly in man-made hives, by humans to attain desired objectives.
Beekeeping in India
Beekeeping in India, which was earlier a forest-based activity, has developed into a successful and thriving Agriculture business. It has been revealed that bees as an efficient pollinating agent are responsible for improving crop productivity.
Beekeeping has been practiced in India since time immemorial as dynastical profession with a limited focus and confined to the rural communities only in India.
Beekeeping is an important activity that supplements and compliments agriculture and provides nutritional and economic security to rural communities worldwide. Even landless people can take up beekeeping as a profession. Beekeeping helps in generating additional income and is an integral part of integrated farming system. In addition to the revenue obtained from honey and other bee products, pollination activities of honey bees are important which contribute to the increased crop yield to an extent of 20-80 per cent in most of the cultivated crops through cross pollination. Beekeeping aids in increased agricultural productivity, has role in employment generation, rural development and nutritional security and is crucial in maintaining biodiversity and provides environmental sustainability. Thus beekeeping provides multiple advantages.
About Honeybees
Honeybees are not only fascinating example of evolutionary success, their pollination services entails great economic importance to man and nature. It has rightly been called “the best little friend of man”
The European (or western) honeybee has the scientific name Apis mellifera and it means, “Honey carrying bee”. In Europe, it is the only honeybee species. Beekeeping In India there are more than one species of honeybees. The native bees are Apis cerana, the cavity dwelling bee that is kept in wooden bee hives, and the open dwelling bees, Apis dorsata, Apis laboriosa and Apis florae which are wild honey bees. Apis mellifera was introduced to India in 1962. According to the definition of honey in the Codex Alimentarius all Apis-species which are producing honey.
European Honeybee-Apismelifera
Apis Cerana Indica
Apis florae
Apis dorsata
Apis mellifera lives in colonies with approximately 60,000 individuals during the high season and around 20,000 individuals during low seasons.
Honeybees visit flowers to collect nectar and pollen. They make honey from the nectar and pollen is their source of protein. Honeybees transport nectar in the honey comb, which is specially designed for nectar transportation. The bees provide pollination for both cultivated crops and the wild flora. The pollen loads are transported on their hind legs.
Honeybee collecting nectar & Pollen
Honeybees build wax combs from wax that they produce themselves from wax glands on their abdomen. They store honey and pollen in the hexagon-shaped cells. The cells are also used as nursery for the eggs, larvae and pupae.
Honeybees build wax combs
These cavity dwelling honeybees are kept in man-made hives and managed by the beekeeper who collects Honey, Pollen, Propolis, Wax and Royal jelly from the bee colony. Apis cerana does not collect propolis.
The queen is the only sexually productive female in the colony and thus is the mother of all drones, workers, and future queens. The queen bee lacks the working gear possessed by worker bees, such as pollen baskets, beeswax-secreting glands, and a well-developed honey sac. Her larval food consists almost entirely of a secretion called royal jelly that is produced by worker bees. The average lifespan of the queen is one to three years.
Queen
During the high season the colony produces new queens in special queen cells and feed them with the very nutritious food, royal jelly.
The virgin queen only mates once during her lifetime (on the mating flight) but with several drones at this time.
Multiflora Honey is 100% pure & natural honey made of organic ingredients.
Superbee’s Multiflora Honey guarantees 100 % pure honey WITHOUT sugar, especially for diabetic patients.
Superbee’s Multiflora Honey contains vitamins and minerals which help in reducing cough.
It is also used as a treatment for throat irritation as it has antibacterial, anti-fungal properties and phytonutrients.
It also aids in proper functioning of digestive system and also helps in reducing weight.
Most of all, it provides energy and strengthens immunity so that you can stay fit, feel young.
Superbee’s Multiflora honey enhances athletic performance as well.
Superbee Multiflora honey is considered to be the BEST NATURAL SWEETENER which has tremendous health benefits.
From regulating blood sugar levels to treating cough, cold and fever, Superbee Multiflora honey is unheated & 100% pure with no additives, no artificial colour and noadded sugar which are why it retains its original nutrients.
It helps in improving the texture of your skin and hair.
It also contains medicinal properties and can help in healing small burns. It makes food healthier and tastier, with many more additional benefits.
Honey is a gift from nature (or honey bees, to be more precise) that does wonders. As mentioned above, it has had many useful applications throughout human history since it was discovered.
BENEFITS OF Natural Honey
used in cooking,
for beauty/wound/disease management,
helps in weight loss,
an energy source for our body is rich in vitamins and minerals,
Extracted from the nectar of many flowers, Multiflora honey as either been blended / mixed up by the bees as the fly from one variety of flower to another or it may have been mixed by the beekeeper or processing factory.
HOW TO USE?
It is used as a sweetener and can replace sugar. It will also replace sugar’s bad effects on human body with its good effects.
Can be consumed with nuts and water just after waking up.
Can have it chapati’s and even eat it as sweet dish.
Can pour it on your cereals, pancakes or oatmeal.
DID YOU KNOW?
Just a good to know fact that honey never expires. Yes, you read it right! Honey is a miracle of nature, it never goes bad. It was reported that archaeologists found 2000-year -old jars of honey in Egyptian tombs and they still tasted pure and delicious.
Alright, ever seen crystals at the bottom your honey jar?
More facts?
No, it doesn’t mean that your honey went bad. Crystallisation is a natural process in which the liquid present in honey crystallises. If ever your honey crystallises, place the jar in some warm water and stir till the crystals dissolve.
As we all know, ajwain seeds are basically used as a spice and are grayish green in color. You would’ve noticed the taste while chewing as it kind of leaves your tongue numb for a little while. It has very good medicinal values and properties.
Honeybees extract nectar from Ajwain flowers and store it in their hive. Soon after that, pure honey is collected and stored into a container. This is simply how Superbee’s Ajwain Honey is processed. So natural and organic their beehives, no form of pesticides are used in the surrounding areas. It can be truly relied on!
Cures indigestion and stomach pain: We are aware of how well our mothers add ajwain in the meals! Because it keeps our stomach strong and free from indigestion and ache, it is partof every household. Just take 1 tsp of Ajwain honey and this will instantly cure acidity or indigestion.
Good for cold and cough: Ajwain is good for the throat as well. It helps to clear your throat problems and the path of your food pipe and chest(lungs). That is where cold and cough arises from. Take 1 tsp of honey and swallow it slowly after drinking a cup of hot water. This will make your throat feel fresh and good.
Dissolves kidney stone easily: This is one of the common problems these days and to get rid of it easily just consume 1 tsp of Ajwain honey once for 10 days, you will surely feel the stone dissolving down there. This will remove it by urination.
Regulates obesity: Ajwain has appetite-stimulating properties in it. Ajwain fastens the bowel movement and often helps to reduce weight. Regular intake of this honey also helps in regulation obesity. Thus, Ajwain honey has much more benefits like:
Helps in reducing intestinal gas
Cures gastric trouble
Heals wounds and burns
Strengthens immune system
Treats asthma
Superbee’s Ajwain Honey is directly brought to you from their own apiaries and its 100% natural. Order one now and start becoming healthy and fit.
You want to improve your digestion; want to manage your weight; want to rejuvenate your skin?
We have the solution in SUPERBEE HONEY VINEGAR.Dadies and Nanies have been making VINEGAR from sugarcane juice for adding taste and nourishment to our foods. We, here at SUPERBEE, are making VINEGAR from HONEY with highly enhanced benefits for helping you live healthy life and adding taste to your food.
This health tonic, the SUPERBEE HONEY VINEGAR is made from good quality HONEY produced with scientific methods of honey production under modern beekeeping practices.
A distinguished product, SUPERBEE HONEY VINEGAR is processed under natural, scientifically controlled conditions with good bacteria in desired time frame for maintaining the quality and reliability.
The qualities of honey are preserved in the natural process of its making. It is kept unfiltered and unpasteurized for enhanced health benefits.
SUPERBEE HONEY VINEGAR can be taken as additive to various preparations, the Dal, Vegetables, Fast Foods, and Salads to improve their palatability for added health benefits and can be taken raw in various ways for specific benefits.
It helps you to:
Keeps your digestion very well toned;
Boost immunity;
Help control your weight, if taken raw with a glass of water regularly;
Rejuvenates and adds glow to your skin when applied as per advice;
When I say vinegar, how many of you think of that transparent acidic liquid which we add to our food. If you don’t, that is commendable.
So VINEGAR, sometimes called distilled or spirit vinegar, has been a mainstay in households worldwide for thousands of years. It’s easy to understand why. This versatile liquid presents a treasure trove of uses for cleaning, gardening and cooking. It even has medicinal applications.
Apple cider vinegar acts to improve insulin sensitivity, which results in lower blood glucose levels and improves carb breakdown. Of the many whole food choices out there, this vinegar is one of the cheapest and most natural food sources to incorporate into a detoxification weight management program
Most of all know, that there is this hype of APPLE CIDER VINEGAR. Why is it so popular and the most common vinegar we come across while speaking of vinegars?
Why is it known in a widespread?
To get your solutions, we are here.
You must know about the health benefits of an APPLE. If not, you must remember the phrase an apple a day keeps a doctor away. This phrase gives away, all the spoilers about how healthy an APPLE is.The benefits of Apple and vinegar are combined in APPLE CIDER VINEGAR.
SUPERBEE’S APPLE CIDER VINEGAR with honeyis 100% pure and natural with the most premium ingredients. It kills harmful bacteria or prevent them from multiplying. It is an ingenious product made from all natural ingredients.
WHAT’S IN IT?
This is made by combining apple juice with yeast. The yeast reacts with the sweetener added in the preparation of juice to create alcohol, and bacteria react with the alcohol to create acetic acid. This is what gives vinegar its pungent, sour flavor.
It is suggested that vinegarshould be consumed empty stomach on regular basis, we can have it just after waking up. We should take 2 tbsp ( 12-15 ml) of the Vinegar and dilute it with water. You can also add the Vinegar on Salads and consume it.
HOW IS OUR PRODUCT SUPERBEE’S APPLE CIDER HONEY VINEGAR DIFFERENT?
As mentioned above, there is fermentation of the yeast with the sweetener added in preparation of the Vinegar. People in the making of this vinegar usually use sugar as the sweetener which kills many benefits of this vinegar by adding its own demerits. We at SUPERBEE’S use honey as the natural sweetener.
Honey reacts with yeast to produce the acid. Hence health benefits of honey are also added in our Vinegar
In uncertain times like the spread of novel Corona virus, we need to boost our immunity. So for that we have a home remedy/ a tea, you don’t have to be worried about ingredients, all of these can be easily available in one’s kitchen for boosting Immunity.
PREPARATION :– Take 1.5 cup of water in a pan and grate ginger and turmeric in it, pour cinnamon and liquorice in it and leave it to boil, when 1 cup water is left strain it in a cup, add 1 lemon juice and 2 tsp honey to it.
FOR BEST RESULTS DRINK IT TWICE A DAY.
HOW THIS TEA WILL HELP YOU?
Turmeric is a great source of :
1. antioxidants
2. anti-microbial
3. even its claimed to cure heart diseases.
Ginger treats
1.Relieving nausea
2. helps in easing a cold or the flu
Mulethi and Dalchini – is a great spice to generate immunity and also cure any problem in respiratory tract.
Superbee wishes that you all stay home and stay safe, and Follow precautionary guidelines issued by the govt. We all know that how beneficial is Honey to boost our immunity and its benefits increase added to food which is natural and organic.
HONEY infused tea has a lot of benefits.
Doctors recommend this tea for anti-pollution,
Boosting Immunity anti-flu and anti- infection.
According to a dietitian this tea is very beneficial for women above the age 35 years
Regulates menopause symptoms and is helpful in women health without side effects.
OH YES! That’s true, bees also make a compound called PROPOLIS. You must be thinking what exactly is PROPOLIS?
Don’t worry we got you all covered. It is produced from the sap on needle-leaved trees or evergreens. When they combine the sap with their own discharges and beeswax, they create a sticky, greenish-brown product used as a coating to build their hives. This is propolis.
It is a gummy substance made by bees. They combine it with beeswax to fortify and sterilize their hives. Superbee Propolis tincture has been traditionally used for centuries as support for the immune system.
In ancient civilizations, it was used for its medicinal properties. Greeks used it to treat abscesses and put it on wounds as a tincture so the bacteria wouldn’t attack on it.There are many tinctures, some are mentioned below
Yes, you read that last one right. It helps in treatment of nose and throat cancer.
ABOUT DOSAGE:
It be used internally or externally both.
Direction for use: As a dietary supplement take 1-2 mL, 2-3 times a day in a small amount of water.
Externally, it can be applied on the part of skin with the help of cotton bud or a cotton piece moistened with water. It helps as a natural disinfectant. There are many hoaxes about propolis, it is safe to apply on skin and can be used internally.
At SUPERBEE we have our own apiary and our bee farmers gather the Propolis which are sent for further processing immediately to provide good quality products.
