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The National Beekeeping and Honey Mission (NBHM) is associated with which 'revolution'?
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Answer: Option A — Sweet Revolution
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The Sweet Revolution refers to the government's push to develop scientific beekeeping (apiculture) and increase the production of honey and other bee products in India. The National Beekeeping and Honey Mission (NBHM) is the main scheme for this goal.
About the NBHM:
- It was approved in 2020 as part of the Atmanirbhar Bharat (self-reliant India) package, with an outlay of Rs 500 crore for 2020-21 to 2022-23, and later extended.
- It is a central sector scheme under the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers' Welfare and is implemented through the National Bee Board (NBB).
Its aims include promoting scientific beekeeping, setting up honey testing laboratories, providing training and quality beekeeping equipment, building processing and marketing infrastructure, and creating a system for tracing the source of honey.
It has three mini missions: on production and productivity, on post-harvest management and value addition, and on research and technology.
Why beekeeping matters:
Bees are key pollinators. Placing bee colonies near crops can raise yields of many fruits, vegetables and oilseeds.
Beekeeping provides extra income for small and landless farmers and tribal communities, with low investment.
Besides honey, bees provide beeswax, royal jelly, propolis, pollen and bee venom.
Honey production in India:
India is one of the leading producers and exporters of honey. The main exported honey is from the European honey bee (Apis mellifera), which is reared in boxes.
Other bees used include the Indian hive bee (Apis cerana indica); the rock bee (Apis dorsata) and dwarf bee (Apis florea) are wild.
Leading honey-producing states include Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana, Bihar and West Bengal.
Other initiatives:
- The Khadi and Village Industries Commission's "Honey Mission" (2017) distributes bee boxes to farmers.
- World Bee Day is observed on 20 May, the birthday of Anton Jansa, a pioneer of modern beekeeping from Slovenia.
Why not the other options?
- ✗Yellow Revolution relates to the production of oilseeds, especially mustard and sunflower.
- ✗Pink Revolution relates to meat processing (and sometimes to onions and pharmaceuticals).
- ✗Round Revolution relates to potato production.
Quick tip
Remember: Sweet Revolution = honey and beekeeping (NBHM, National Bee Board); Yellow = oilseeds; Round = potato.
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