Dimapur, March 31 (MExN): Central Institute of Horticulture (CIH) and National Bee Board (NBB), DAC, Govt. of India, New Delhi jointly organized farmers’ training on ‘Bee keeping for enhancing horticulture crop production’ at Ruzaphema village, Dimapur from March 28-29. The training was held to promote bee keeping among the farming community as bees play a major role in enhancing horticulture crop production through pollination and also bee keeping is a profitable enterprise for farmers to earn additional income.
A press release informed that the training was inaugurated by Dr. Lallan Ram, Director, CIH, Medziphema. He exhorted the participants to apply new technologies learnt from the training to improve their production and economy through honey bees.
The resource persons Dr. A. K. Singh, Asst. Scientist, AICRP (Honey bees & pollinators) SASRD: NU, Nzanbemo K Lotha, Team Member, NBHM, Dimapur i/c and Thungben Yanthan, Team Member, NBHM, Wokha i/c imparted training on various aspects of bee keeping like, ‘Scope & Importance of Honey bees and its colony management’, ‘Importance & impact of insect pollinators on Vegetable crops’, ‘Pest of honey bees & their management’, ‘Desertation- causes & preventive measure’, ‘Apiary site selection and hands on demonstration on handling of scientific tools & equipments transferring of bee colony from traditional to scientific hives, handling and up care of scientific hives’. Multi utility centre, NBHM, located at 5th Mile, Dimapur was also visited as a part of the training.
Certificates were distributed by Dr. Lallan Ram to all the participants. The training is being conducted in three batches for the farmers under vegetable cluster of Dimapur district. The next two batches will be organized during the month of April 2014. Altogether 21 participants attended the training.
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