Objectives of National Beekeeping & Honey Mission(NBHM)
- Encourage the industry’s overall expansion to generate revenue and jobs for households with and without farms.
- Increase agriculture and horticultural output.
- Establishing Integrated Beekeeping Development Centers (IBDC)/CoE, bee illness diagnostic labs, honey testing labs, custom hiring centres, nucleus stock, Api-therapy centres, bee breeders, etc. is part of developing infrastructural facilities.
- Create a blockchain/traceability system for the source of honey and other goods from beehives, and use IT technologies for beekeeping, such as online registration, etc.
- Encourage agri-startups and agri-entrepreneurs to engage in beekeeping and honey production.
- Encourage traders/exporters and beekeepers to enter into trade partnerships.
- In order to produce honey and other high-value beehive products, the beekeeping sector must foster, develop, and disseminate the most recent and cutting-edge technologies.
- Encourage beekeepers by providing an institutional framework for a group effort, such as SHGs, FPOs, etc.
- Increase the benefits of beekeeping’s diversification on the economy, society, and environment by producing more honey of high quality and quantity for both domestic and international markets,
- To produce other high-value beehive by-products like beeswax, royal jelly, propolis, comb honey, and bee venom.
National Beekeeping & Honey Mission (NBHM)
National Beekeeping & Honey Mission(NBHM) was launched as a component of the Atma Nirbhar Bharat package by the Union Government in 2020. It is a central sector scheme. It is launched to achieve the objective of the “Sweet Revolution,” which is being executed by the National Bee Board (NBB); and National Beekeeping & Honey Mission seeks to promote and improve scientific beekeeping nationally.