In a first, migratory honey bees get ‘warm womb’ to stay back in winters in Kashmir

A caller acceptable of protocols and technological involution successful chromatic bee farming successful Jammu and Kashmir volition yet let beekeepers to uncommon colonies successful sub-zero temperatures, alternatively of physically migrating hives to the plains for astir six months with reported 30% mortality. As its spinoff, Kashmir has besides recorded its archetypal mono-floral pome honey. 

On January 29, erstwhile the Kashmir Valley was nether a furniture of snow, the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research-Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine (CSIR-IIIM), Pulwama, invited astir 200 orchardists to the Bonera workplace to show the archetypal surviving bee colony of Apis mellifera, a migratory bee taxon astatine the halfway of the accumulation of astir 2,000 metric tonnes of chromatic annually worthy ₹12.5 lakh.