Educational Visit to Directorate of Beekeeping, Mahabaleshwar on 20th January 2024
Department of Zoology has conducted a Educational Visit to Directorate of Beekeeping, Mahabaleshwar on 20th January 2024 for of S.Y.B.Sc (Zoology) and M.Sc I & II (Zoology) students. The Visit was coordinated by Dr. Shoeb Ahmad, Total 59 students from S.Y.B.Sc (Zoology) M.Sc I & II (Zoology) visited to Directorate of Beekeeping, Mahabaleshwar. The main aim of this visit to exposed student with Beekeeping techniques and handling of bees with beekeeping equipment. Technical Assistant of Directorate of beekeeping gave demo how to handle bees in artificial colony. He also demonstrated the different beekeeping equipment like honey purification unit and bee wax extractor. Hence, this visit created an end to- end implementation framework for beekeeping skill development, which provides empowerment opportunities and income generation to unemployed youth.