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KVIC’s Honey Mission
- 11 Mar 2025
- 2 min read
The Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) has distributed bee boxes, honey colonies, and toolkits to beekeepers under the ‘Honey Mission’ to spread the Sweet Revolution.
- Honey Mission (2017): It is an initiative of KVIC that promotes beekeeping and honey production (apiculture), and integrates bee farming with agriculture for additional income.
- Apiculture products include honey, royal jelly, beeswax, pollens that are widely used in pharmaceuticals, food, beverages, beauty, and other industries.
- KVIC: It is a statutory body established under the Khadi and Village Industries Commission Act, 1956 and functions under the Ministry of MSME.
- It plans, promotes, and implements programs for Khadi and village industries, coordinating with rural development agencies.
Note: Like KVIC’s Honey Mission, the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare implements the National Beekeeping & Honey Mission (NBHM), a Central Sector Scheme aimed at promoting scientific beekeeping to promote the Sweet Revolution in India.
- Sweet revolution promotes apiculture (beekeeping) to boost the production of high-quality honey and other bee-derived products.
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