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to our faces. If a success story for 50 bee colonies. Today, he
spreads sweet smiles, and also possesses over 800 colonies, and
tastes sweet, you will certainly sells tons of honey. He brought
call it icing on the cake. These in innovation in his work, and is
days our farmers are performing also making botanical honey
similar wonders in the production like Jamun honey, Tulsi honey
of honey. The sweetness of honey and Amla honey. Madhukeshwar
is also changing the lives of our ji, your innovation and success
farmers, increasing their income. in madhu, or honey production
In Yamunanagar, Haryana, also makes your name
there lives a beekeeper friend - meaningful.
Subhash Kamboj ji. Subhash ji Friends, you all know how
underwent training in beekeeping much importance has been
in a scientific way. After that, given to honey in our traditional
he started his work with just six health systems. In Ayurveda texts,
boxes. Today, he is engaged in honey has been described as
beekeeping using about two an elixir. Honey, not only imparts
thousand boxes. His honey is taste; it also gives us good health.
supplied across many states. There are so many possibilities
Vinod Kumar ji is also beekeeping in honey production today
in more than one and a half that even the youth pursuing
thousand colonies in Palli village professional studies are making
of Jammu. He has undertaken it a source of self-employment.
training in rearing the queen bee One such youth is – Nimit Singh
last year. Through this work, he of Gorakhpur, U.P. Nimit ji has
is earning 15 to 20 lakh rupees done B.Tech. His father is also
annually. There is another farmer a doctor, but after his studies,
from Karnataka - Madhukeshwar instead of a job, Nimit ji decided
Hegde ji. Madhukeshwar ji says to be self-employed. He started
that he had availed a subsidy honey production. He also got
from the Government of India his own lab set up in Lucknow
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