The suitable location for keeping the beehives is near the crop of :

The correct answer is Option (3) → Brassica

Option (1) Potato — Incorrect. Potato is grown from tubers and does not depend on bee pollination.

Option (2) Sugarcane — Incorrect. Sugarcane is grown from stem cuttings, not for its flowers.

Option (3) Brassica — Correct. Bees are the pollinators of crops such as sunflower, Brassica, apple and pear; hives kept in the field during flowering raise both crop yield and honey yield.

Option (4) Ginger — Incorrect. Ginger is grown from rhizomes.

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 – “… (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.”