DINAJPUR, Apr 25 (UNB): Honey collection through beekeeping in litchi orchards has turned out to be a lucrative profession helping the district's economy grow considerably.
It has become a common trend among the people involved in apiculture to collect honey from litchi buds in the district, which has a good name for widely producing the succulent summer fruit.
A large number of beekeepers from different places of the country collect honey from the litchi orchards of the district every summer when the litchi trees are in full bloom.
They pay a considerable amount of money to the litchi plant owners in exchange for the scope to maintain honeybee colonies in the hives.
Selling the items in the local markets and outside the district, the beekeepers are getting highly economically benefited, which also ultimately helps increase the size of the district's economy.
Consequently, as apiculture is meeting the need of honey greatly in the country so it is also removing unemployment of youths largely.
But some insiders of the sector told this correspondent that the honey produced in the district could be exported if government patronisation including loan was found. According to sources at the industry assistance centre of Bangladesh Small and Cottage Industries Corporation (BSCIC), Dinajpur, there are around three hundred honeycombs in the district.
Around 45 tonnes of honey worth Tk 150 million is collected form the honeycombs of the district every year.
Honey from litchi buds sweetening Dinajpur economy
FE Team | Published: April 26, 2014 00:00:00 | Updated: November 30, 2026 06:01:00
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