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06 Jun

Posted at 10:22h in Animal husbandry
Harjindra Singh 12 views

मधुमक्‍खी उत्‍पाद तथा उनकी उपयोगि‍ता Beekeeping in India is mainly reared for honey. However, with the progress research and development in apiculture, the other valuable bee-hive products such as royal jelly,beeswax, bee venom, pollen and propolis have become known to apiculturist . Royal jelly Royal jelly is milky or light pale edible item. It is composed of proteins 15-18 %, lipids 2-6%, carbohydrates 9 -`10% and minerals 0.7-1.2%. It contains 65-70 % moistures. The proteins are mainly amino acids and essential amino acids. Alanine, arginine, aspartic acids, glutamic acids, glysine, isoleusine, lysine, mehteonine, phenyl alanine , tryptophan, tyrosine and serine are present in royal jelly. Carbohydrates in royal jelly are glucose, fructose, melibiose, trehalose, maltose and sucrose. It also contains vitamin A, B and C . Mineral elements present in jelly are iron, copper, silicon and sulphur. Royal jelly also contains some other chemical stimulants which are responsible for queen determination.  Royal jelly is secreted in hypopharyngeal glands by nurse-bees of 1 to 2 week age. It is very nutritious food and is fed to young workers and queen larva. Uses: Royal jelly is very nutritious for humans’ beings, as it increases vigour and vitality. Beeswax Beeswax is complex substance having complex esters of monoatomic alcohols and fatty acids from 70.4 to 74.7% of wax. Other compounds are free...

19 May

Posted at 06:11h in Miscellaneous
Prof. Sevak A. Dhenge 10 views

मधुमक्खी छत्ते के उत्पाद Beekeeping in India was mainly meant for production of honey. However, with the progress research and development in apiculture, the other valuable bee hive products such as beeswax, royal jelly, bee venom, pollen and propolis have become known to apiculturist .Commercialization of these products is a new boon to becoming industry. Honey It is sweet viscous fluid produced by honeybees mainly from the nectar of the flowers. The quality of honey varies from plant to plant depending upon the physicochemical properties of the nectar. On this basis, the honey can be classified as a floral honey or honeydew honey. Though monofloral honey is not common in India, yet honey can be categorized on the basis of floral sources such as mustard honey, litchi honey, berseem honey eucalyptus honey etc. Honey is extracted and prepared for market by different methods. The honey from Apis dorsata comb is squeezed manually, and it contains pollen-grains and even juice of some brood and is a crude honey, known as squeezed honey. The honey from bee –hive extracted from combs with the help of honey extractor is known as hive-honey. This honey may remain in liquid or crystallize, and hence can presented to consume as liquid honey or granulated honey.   Honey is whole food , containing sugar,...