Beekeeping: A Compressive Guide to Bees and Beekeeping

Jul 2013 · Scientific Publishers

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896

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About this eBook

This book shall serve as a reference book for students, teachers, and researchers and for all those interested in bees and beekeeping. This book will be useful to all those who wish to make beekeeping their hobby or as profession, entrepreneurs and even layman. Besides, the information provided in this book will be useful to pollination biologists, students, teachers, scientists of agriculture, animal behaviour, botany, conservation, biology, ecology, entomology, environmental biology, forestry, genetics, plant breeding, horticulture, toxicology, zoology, seed growers and seed agencies. It will be highly useful to motivate the young generation to fascinating world of honeybees and adopt beekeeping as a profession. Book as a guide for their problems & evolving strategies.

About the author

Dharam P. Abrol

Dr. Dharam P. Abrol, Dean, Faculty of Agriculture, Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences of Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir. He was the Head of the Division of Entomology (August 2008 to February 2015) and Controller of Examinations (2012). He has served several universities in various capacities. He predominately specializes in pest management, honeybee and pollination biology. He has authored 18 books, 12 manuals and published over 250 original research papers in various national and international journals. He is associated with several externally funded collaborative research projects with international organizations of Poland and Switzerland. Professor Abrol is a fellow of National Academy of Agricultural Sciences. He has received the Young Scientist Award–1992 conferred by the Jammu and Kashmir State Council for Science and Technology for his outstanding contributions in the field of Agricultural Sciences. Additionally, he also received the Pran Vohra Award–1993, the Professor T. N. Ananthakrishnan Award–1997. He was awarded the Dr. Rajendra Prasad Puruskar–1999 for his Hindi book on beekeeping entitled “Madhumakhi Palan-Sidhant Evam Vidhian’’ and 11th Apicultural Association Award–2010 for his contributions in Apiculture. He is also presented with a gold medal for development of Apiculture in Asia by King Saud University.

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