Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare
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OPERATION OF BEEKEEPING AND HONEY MISSION

Posted On: 21 MAR 2025 4:59PM by PIB Delhi

 National Beekeeping and Honey Mission (NBHM) is a Central Sector Scheme for promoting scientific beekeeping for holistic growth of beekeeping sector to enhance agriculture production.

The NBHM has sub-schemes  – Mini Mission I, II and III.   Under Mini Mission-I projects for production and productivity improvement of various crops through pollination assisted by adoption of scientific bee keeping are given;  under Mini Mission - II  post harvest management of bee keeping is supported and under Mini Mission - III  research and technology generation is provided.

The financial assistance is provided  as per the scheme guidelines.  Some projects are individual and some serve the bee keeper community, value chain and research, so producer wise data is not maintained, but project, year wise and State wise data is as under : 

Sl. No.

States / UTs

2020-21

2021-22

2022-23

2023-24

2024-25

Total

1.

Andhra Pradesh

--

--

1

--

--

01

2.

Arunachal Pradesh

--

1

1

3

3

08

3.

Assam

1

2

7

3

4

17

4.

Bihar

2

--

1

1

2

06

5.

Chhattisgarh

--

2

2

--

3

07

6.

Gujarat

3

4

--

1

2

10

7.

Haryana

--

4

--

3

3

10

8.

Himachal Pradesh

2

2

2

--

3

09

9.

Jammu & Kashmir

7

--

4

1

6

18

10.

Jharkhand

--

--

--

11

1

12

11.

Karnataka

7

5

3

2

3

20

12.

Kerala

--

4

--

--

1

05

13.

Madhya Pradesh

--

4

2

2

2

10

14.

Maharashtra

2

--

2

1

9

14

15.

Manipur

--

1

2

1

1

05

16.

Meghalaya

--

--

--

--

2

02

17.

Mizoram

--

--

--

--

--

--

18.

Nagaland

--

--

--

2

4

06

19.

Odisha

--

1

--

1

1

03

20.

Punjab

--

3

1

--

5

09

21.

Rajasthan

2

2

1

--

10

15

22.

Sikkim

--

1

--

--

1

02

23.

Tamil Nadu

5

--

2

1

1

09

24.

Telangana

--

1

4

4

4

13

25.

Tripura

--

1

--

--

2

03

26.

Uttar Pradesh

3

3

12

2

10

30

27.

Uttarakhand

2

8

5

1

7

23

28.

West Bengal

--

1

1

3

11

16

29

Andaman & Nicobar Islands

--

--

--

--

1

01

30.

National/Central Level Agencies

5

2

6

1

--

14

 

Grant Total

41

52

59

44

102

298

 

This information was given by Minister of State for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Shri Ramnath Thakur a written reply in Rajya Sabha today.

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