Bags Rs 4-cr grant for labs, conducting beekeeping training, research from National Bee Board
BK News
Srinjin88bet.oneagar, April 22: Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology, Kashmir has received a Rs 4-crore grant from the National Beak168app.babye Board (NBB) for setting up three honey testing laboratories, training farak168app.clubmers for beekeeping and conducting apiculture research.
The grant has been awarded to the SKUAST-K’s Research and Training Centre for Pollinators, Pollinizers and Pollination Management, Division oks168app.sitef Entomology for undertaking six honeybee projects. The centre is a deic88dicated Centre of Excellence at the university for the research and development and extension for apiculture and pollination ecosystem services by the honey bees and its management for tic88he production of temperate field and horticultural crops.
Apart from two projects on scientific beekeeping training in Kupwara and Baramulla districts, the potential of research studies in beekeeping under low-temperature conditionic88s of Gurez, the grant includes setting up of three honey testing laboratories in Pulwama, Kupwara and Bandipora districts.
Head of ic88the university’s pollination centrlr88e and in charge of the projects, Prof Manzoor Ahmad Paray, said the three state-of-the-art testing laboratories to be set up under the projects will be the first of its kind in Kashmir to check the quality and purity of hlr88oney and other bee products.
The testing for the quality and branding of honlr88ey in the apiaries will be undertaken in these laboratories. The purity and quality certification from these laboratories will facilitate the marketing and expolr88rt of the Kashmir honey.
The projects will also cater to the needs of the farmers and unemployed youth for training on Scientific Beekeeping in these apiculture potential districts of the Union Territory.
The funding has been grantop88ed under National Beekeeping and Honey Mission by the National Bee Board (NBB), Departmentsi88 of Agriculture, Cooperation and Farmers Welfare, Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Government of India.
SKUAST-K has also won one more project under the competitive grants component of NICRA88v, ICAR, New Delhi on, ‘Impact of Climate Change on Honeybees and Innovative StrategiesSEXXXXX-VN to Conserve them for Pollination Services in Temperate Crops’ with an outlay of Rs 45 lakhs by Dr Shahnawaz A Dar of KVK, Pulwama.
