Abstract: For any production there are needed four inputs – land, labour, capital and management. But it is interesting that in agricultural production another input is most significant that is pollinator. Pollinators help to pollinate the maximum flowers of this planet Earth. Pollinators like bees, butterflies, dragonflies and so others are day by day disappearing around the world. Not only in city but this situation also are happening in villages. It most responsive reasons behind this crucial situation are enormous pressure of urbanisation, rapid industrialisation, unscientific usages of pest control materials in farms and few others. But almost all people know that these small insects are very much helpful for pollination. It is beyond our imagination that three-quarters of our important food crops need bee pollination. It is estimated that 80 percent of flowering plants are depending more or less on insect pollination and half of the pollinators of tropical plants are bees. The present study is aimed to know the position of beekeepers of West Bengal for providing pollination service. This study also wants to identify the external problems which are associated with beekeepers of West Bengal for providing this pollination service. The article goes in the following way – Introduction, Methodology, Limitation, Reasons for Selecting This Area As A Case, Bees and Pollination, Hand Pollination: An Alternative Pollination Service, Bees-Colonies in World, Bees-Pollination in India, Result and Discussion, and Conclusion.
Keywords: Bees, Beekeepers, Pollinators, Hand Pollination, Pollination service.
Title: Problems and Prospects of Beekeepers for Providing Pollination Service in West Bengal: A Case Study at North Dinajpur and South Dinajpur Districts
Author: Manish Baidya, Sanghamitra Purkait
International Journal of Interdisciplinary Research and Innovations
ISSN 2348-1218 (print), ISSN 2348-1226 (online)
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