<span style="font-size:15.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language: EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold" lang="EN-US">Traditional beekeeping shows great promises for endangered indigenous bee <i>Apis cerana </i></span>

Abstract

<span style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;background:white;font-style: normal" lang="EN-US">Nagaland dwellings plentiful bee flora is as a natural endowment<span style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;background:white" lang="EN-US">. <span style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;background:white;font-style:normal" lang="EN-US">I<span style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-US">ndigenous techniques, equipments and traditional beekeeping knowledge are goldsmith due to simplicity and low cost input, shows great promise to visionaries for their envisage. The suitable agro-climate, plenty bee flora and<i> </i>immemorial practice with rich traditional knowledge offers enormous potential for development and success of apiculture in this state. The outfit survey accomplished in six districts of Nagaland revealed that 26% beekeepers were rearing both species (<i>Apis cerana and Tetragonula iridipennis</i>) and rest only <i>A. cerana</i>. The 74.67% peasantry indulged in apiculture and average number of beehive/ beekeeper was 3.78 where as highest beehive/ beekeeper was observed in Kohima. The 65.33% beekeepers were interested to rear in indigenous box and 34.67% beekeepers were interested to scientific beehive. A keywords: majority of beekeepers responded, the wax moth attack is higher in scientific box, while literate new generation, and trend beekeepers were interested with scientific beehive. The <i>Naga</i> tribes know different indigenous methods of colony capture, different types of traditional bee hives and indigenous methods of pest management. Simultaneously gruesome traditional honey harvesting method and <i>jhoom</i> cultivation direct threaten to bees which require scientific intervention for conservation to <i>A. cerana. </i>Honey bee role as a pollinator to enhance the crop productivity and conserve the plant biodiversity are more valuable than bee hive products.

</span></span></span></span>