Beehives In Rubber Plantation

The honey yield were statistically similar for each bee hive kg ha while the total honey yield production.

Beehives in rubber plantation. Bee keeping in rubber plantations the rubber tree is a prolific source of honey which is obtained from the extra floral nectaries at the tip of the petiole where the leaflets join. How to survive alone in the wilderness for 1 week eastern woodlands duration. Apiculture is done in the midst of the rubber plantation. Tom mcelroy wild survival recommended for you.

Honey beehives in a rubber plantation near nagercoil veethi brings photos from nagercoil. It has embarked on a unique initiative to encourage stakeholders to take up apiculture to earn. Designing the beehives harvesting honey. The fresh fruit bunch economic yield of the oil palm was statistically similar at 0 1 2 and 3 bee hive s per hectare.

Back to main page of rubber. Soil requirement in rubber plantation rubber plants require highly deep weathered soils which consist of laterite and lateritic soils they grow best in well drained porous soils with moderate acidic in nature. However rubber plant also thrives in red alluvial soils if there is a good organic matter in the soil. Ravi who takes care of the bee farm follows his own ethical code when.

Beehives are kept on platforms between the rubber trees. Honey flow period is between the months of january and march. Therefore rubber plantations occupied a formidable role in the political structures aims and experiences of indigenous resistance that would manifest itself in the nation s subsequent wars with france and the united states. Three beehives were integrated in oil palm plantation to determine optimum productivity of the oil palm honey bee farming system.

Bee keeping and rubber plantations may seem unconnected. The soil ph of 5 0 to 6 0 is best for rubber cultivation. A short introduction of a rubber tree plantation.