”Now I am very happy with this business, I can eat pure honey, and my family's expenses are covered by selling it.”
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There are beehives all over the yard. Morning and evening the day passes to his tune. 50-year-old Narendra Khatri of Vangaon, Bhimdatta Municipality-6 in Kanchanpur has been living his daily life like this for a decade. Not only about beekeeping, he also gives information about bees and honey to anyone who comes to the house.
In the beginning, he started raising buffaloes according to the plan that he should do some business. Got stuck in it for a year or two. Gradually, the desire to keep bees arose . Started with 5 hives 10 years ago His beekeeping has now reached one and a half hundred hives. This beekeeping has become his source of income.
Khatri loved to eat honey when he was little. He used to go to the forest to extract honey. That interest led him to beekeeping. "Now I am very happy with this business, I can eat pure honey, my family's expenses have been covered by selling it," Khatri said, "Not only that. I have also been able to give the necessary knowledge and skills to the farmers who want to keep bees. According to
Khatri, the pasture area is good for bees in Far West. Mustard to berries, chiuri, lychee etc. are sources for bees . He moves the hive from Marma in Darchula to Fant in Kailali Kanchanpur for bee grazing. Once they carry the hives in the car and take them to the grazing area. After that, they return home after entrusting it to the locals.
Khatri has raised beekeeping of Mellifera, which is more cultivated in the world, and Cesena, which is more cultivated in Asia. Mellifera is cultivated more towards Europe . But Serena is more popular in Asia. It is also a wild bee . It has been kept in a modern hive.
Different types of food are prepared in modern barns. in which honey is prepared separately . It can be eaten directly. It is very tasty and disease resistant. That's why customers prefer it more, he says. Khatri says that it can be eaten straight from the tree like a ripe fruit.
'Many people don't know about honey, it's enough if it's sweet,' says Khatri, 'not only that, how honey is produced, if you know everything, you can identify good honey.' Sometimes there is a decrease . From the honey produced from this, he is earning 10/12 lakhs a year . He looks for workers on daily wages while moving the hive around for grazing. Other times they gather themselves .
He started beekeeping with buffaloes and after seeing good things in bees, he paid more attention to it . However, he has not stopped buffalo farming even now. Khatri says that after better than expected results and income, he started beekeeping. In recent times, he also reaches different kinds of fairs and festivals with his products. At the Mela Mahotsav, he gives information about honey and bees after tasting his products. He says that along with business, skills and knowledge can also be shared.
