National Beekeeping and Honey Mission

The Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Government of India, launched the a centrally funded scheme "National Beekeeping and Honey Mission (NBHM)" during 2019-20.

It has been started for the overall promotion and development of scientific beekeeping and to achieve the goal of "Sweet Revolution".The NBHM is implemented through the National Bee Board for overall promotion of scientific beekeeping & entrepreneurship among small & marginal farmers, infrastructure development for postharvest management and support for research & development.

Scope of activities

Capacity building & trainings, specific focus on women, input support for promotion & production, setting up of Integrated Beekeeping Development Centres (IBDCs), other Infrastructures, Digitization /online registration, etc., processing, value addition, market support, etc. & R&D being taken up under 3 Mini Missions (MMs)-MM-1, MM-2 & MM-3. 

Beneficiaries

•  Individual beneficiaries/ Societies/ Firms / Companies
• Self Help Groups (SHGs)/ Joint Liability Groups (JLGs)/ Farmers/ Beekeepers Interested Groups (FIGs)/ Co-operatives/ FPOs/ FPCs/ Member Beekeepers’ Federations (MBFs) of NBB/ MBFs registered with NBB
• National/ State level Governmental Organizations, including NBB, ICAR, State Agricultural Universities (SAUs)/ Central Agricultural Universities (CAUs), etc

Support provided under the scheme

To view the support provided under the scheme, click here.

To view the complete scheme guidelines, click here.

Source : National Beekeeping and Honey Mission portal