Tuesday, May 22, 2012


Albert Einstein Says “If the bee disappears from the surface of the Earth, man would have no more than four years left to live.” So can you imagine the importance of honeybee for our existence!! 

The subject that deals with the management technique of honeybee rearing, collection of honey , making honey products is generally called Apiculture . Apiculture is a vast scientific subject, related to agriculture, food, nutrition, medicine, industrial products and environment.



BSMRAU Apiculture Project
However this is my first blog. So I think to create my blog on such an exceptional topic. Thats why I choose –‘Apiculture in Bangladesh’. I specially thanks to J. CH. SAHA, Project Director, Beekeeping Project, BSCIC 139(5th floor), Motijheel C/A, Dhaka 1000, Bangladesh, from which I collect my desirable information. I also graceful to my teacher Md. Mamunur Rahman, Assistant Professor, department of Entomology (BSMRAU) who gave me first teaching about Apiculture.





Bee hive
Artificial bee hive
In the context of agriculture based major employment and economy of Bangladesh, beekeeping as substantial and/or fulltime income generating source. In a family based activity it is very easy, acceptable and less expensive than any other income generating activity. Because beekeeping as a family based activity having 1-5 colonies does not require any specific land. Most of the time of a year there will be no need to purchase raw materials as honey bees collect nectar and pollen from the available source of existing natural bee plants. The best known honey in Bangladesh is Mustard honey. Mustard is grown in many districts of Bangladesh as an oilseed crop. Drum Stick, Zizyphus jujuba, mango, and various other vegetables, fruits, forest and crop plants are also good nectar-producing sources. In Bangladesh the most important honeybee species from the commercial standpoint is Apis cerana indica. In addition, one wild species, Apis dorsata makes hive in forests, on large trees around dwelling houses, and even attached to the cornice. Many professional honey collectors of Bangladesh hunt Apis dorsata colonies as a source of honey. These professional honey collectors live mostly in areas close to forests, particularly thesundarban,madhupur and other forest enriched areas of Bangladesh.

In this blog I mainly emphasize on the full management technique of honey bee cultivation such as bee classification, rearing of them, harvesting of honey, some common diseases of bees. If anyhow, my this blog can help you, I will be satisfied. So let’s start………...