In a first, migratory honey bees get ‘warm womb’ to stay back in winters in Kashmir

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Kashmir's beekeepers now use scientific protocols and heated shelters to keep migratory honey bees through winters instead of migrating hives to plains for six months with thirty percent mortality. CSIR-IIIM demonstrated first surviving Apis mellifera colony in January. Kashmir produced first mono-floral apple honey, generating ₹12.5 lakh annually from two thousand metric tonnes.

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