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Beekeeping as Deterrent on Bangladesh Border
- 13 Sep 2024
- 1 min read
Recently, the Border Security Force (BSF) has started using beekeeping as an innovative strategy to deter cross-border infiltration and smuggling activities from Bangladesh.
- BSF jawans have been trained to use apiaries—box-like structures with frames where bees build hives.
- The bees are used to create a natural deterrent along the border, as the threat of bee stings discourages smugglers and infiltrators from approaching the fence.
- Since the installation of the apiaries, incidents of fence-cutting and illegal entry have almost reached zero.
- The initiative not only serves a security purpose but also provides jawans with the opportunity to learn beekeeping, which they can continue as a source of income after retirement.
- Bangladesh and India share a 4,096-kilometre border, the fifth-longest in the world.
- The border touches the Indian states of Assam, West Bengal, Mizoram, Meghalaya, and Tripura.
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