ONE DAY AWARENESS PROGRAMME ON HONEY BEE FARMING

On 30th November,2023, as an outreach activity under lab to land initiative department of Zoology, University of Jammu organized one day awareness programme on Honey Bee farming in collaboration with Khadi and Village industries commission, Govt. of India at village Gowar, panchyat Sarwal, Tehsil Pargwal, Jammu. The objective was to spread awareness among farmers of border area  about scope and benefits of bee farming. 

The  programme was  executed by coordination between Yashpal Singh, Deputy Director ,KVIC, Govt. of India,  H.S.Ghurdaura, executive bee keeper, Dr. Ripudaman Parihar, Assistant Professor, Zoology, University of Jammu along  Sh. Bopinder Singh,  Sarpanch, Parduman Singh, panch Sarwal panchayat .More than 60 farmers including females were given the knowledge and they enthusiastically accepted the option of honey bee farming for self employment. 

They were also informed about various subsidy schemes of government to take up this as a start up.