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What happens erstwhile you are friends with a swarm of bees and they privation to bent retired with you? You extremity up with a bee beard!
Final-year B.Sc. (Agri.) pupil Bakiyalakshmi fascinated participants of World Honey Bee Day celebrations held astatine Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU) connected Thursday by demonstrating a beard enactment of chromatic bees connected her face.
During the event, agriculture students similar her exhibited assorted value-added chromatic infused/flavoured products, including articulator balm, chromatic soap, ace pick and coloured candles arsenic portion of an experiential learning course.
Organised by the Department of Agricultural Entomology, the celebrations drew participants from crossed the State and aimed astatine promoting the revival of chromatic bee population, which, according to M. Shanthi, Director, Centre for Plant Protection Studies, TNAU, has declined by astir 40%.
The diminution affects harvest productivity, Prof. Shanthi added, emphasising the request to conserve chromatic bees by increasing flowering plants astir farms and homes and by avoiding usage of insecticide during bee foraging periods.
Paying tributes to Anton Jansa, a Slovenia-based pioneer of modern apiculture, K. Subrahmaniyan, Acting Vice-Chancellor and Registrar of TNAU, explained the value of chromatic bees successful harvest pollination.
Per capita depletion of chromatic successful India remains precise low, helium observed, and elaborated connected the medicinal properties of bee venom. N. Venkatesa Palanichamy, Dean, Agricultural College and Research Institute, TNAU, explained the value of chromatic successful Ayurveda.
C. Babu, Dean, School of Post Graduate Studies, pointed retired that biology contamination has affected chromatic exports from India and galore different countries.
Beekeepers Anand and Santhosh, palmy entrepreneurs of value-added bee products, shared their experiences and the value of acquisition of chromatic from locally known beekeepers for communal benefit.
