Mr. X wants to start Bee-keeping. Important points for successful bee-keeping are _________
A. Selection of suitable location for keeping beehives
B. Beehives can be kept in fruit orchards
C. Catching and hiving of swarms
D. Management of beehives during rainy season
E. Regular visit by veterinary doctor is mandatory
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → A, B and C
Bee-keeping (apiculture) is the keeping of honeybee hives for honey and beeswax. It is easy, but it needs some special knowledge.
A. Selection of suitable location for keeping beehives — True. Choosing a good place for the hives, with enough flowering plants nearby, is one of the points the book lists.
B. Beehives can be kept in fruit orchards — True. Bees pollinate crops such as apple and pear. Hives kept in crop fields and orchards during flowering raise both the crop yield and the honey yield.
C. Catching and hiving of swarms — True. A swarm is a group of bees. Catching it and settling it in a hive is how a bee-keeper gets a colony.
D. Management of beehives during rainy season — False. The book asks for management during different seasons, all through the year, not in one season only.
E. Regular visit by veterinary doctor is mandatory — False. Bee-keeping is not labour-intensive and needs no regular visit by a veterinary doctor.
Note: This question is from Chapter 9, Strategies for Enhancement in Food Production, of the pre-rationalised NCERT book. This chapter is not in the present NCERT book (2026-27). The extract below is from the pre-rationalised edition.
NCERT Extract (Pre-rationalised edition, Chapter 9, Strategies for Enhancement in Food Production):
Bee-keeping – “… Bee-keeping though relatively easy does require some specialised knowledge and there are several organisations that teach bee-keeping. The following points are important for successful bee-keeping: (i) Knowledge of the nature and habits of bees, (ii) Selection of suitable location for keeping the beehives, (iii) Catching and hiving of swarms (group of bees), (iv) Management of beehives during different seasons, and (v) Handling and collection of honey and of beeswax. Bees are the pollinators of many of our crop species (see chapter 2) such as sunflower, Brassica, apple and pear. Keeping beehives in crop fields during flowering period increases pollination efficiency and improves the yield– beneficial both from the point of view of crop yield and honey yield.”