Abstract
Economically five important honeybees’ species namely Apis cerana F., A. mellifera L., A. laboriosa S., A. dorsata F., and A. florae F. are recorded in Nepal. To understand the farmers’ indigenous knowledges and practices on beekeeping, a survey was conducted in Nepal in 2015/016. Farmers searched honeybee colonies in hollow tree around the forest and domesticated them bykeeping twothree bee hives made of traditional wood log bee hives of A. cerana in a house with least management practices. Majority of the farmers (74%) harvested honey two times in a year, between March to May and second September to November. The techniques of beekeeping had been handed down from generation to generation since immemorial time.Indigenous knowledge and practices could be an important basis for the development of beekeeping and maintenance of beekeeping in rural areas of Nepal.
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