Abstract:
Abstarct
Bangladesh.
An experiment was conducted in a litchi orchard at Iswardi of Pabna district in the
year 2021 in Bangladesh to develop feasible comb honey production at colony
level. Twenty number of strong bee colonies were used to develop comb honey
inside a Super chamber on each strong bee colony. Litchi orchard was used as a
source of nectar producing plants. Four methods were used to harvest comb honey
i.e. comb cassette method, bottle with wax foundation method, bottle without wax
foundation method and only frame in super as untreated control. Honey collection
from the super chamber of bee hive was the highest (1.702 kg/frame) in only
frame in super (control) in comparison to all other treatments viz. comb cassette
method, bottle with wax foundation method and bottle without wax foundation
method in terms of weight per unit in super chamber. But in terms of area per
super chamber of bee hive the highest (53.546 kg/super) yield of honey was
obtained from the comb cassette method utilized bee hives which is followed by
control (30.638kg/super), bottle without wax foundation (11.433 kg/super) and
bottle with wax foundation (6.405kg/super), respectively. It was observed that in
comb cassette method honey yield increases by 74.77% in comparison to
untreated control method. It was also revealed that profitability can be increased
by double fold (2.03) by adopting the comb cassette method in litchi blooming
period from a honey bee colony.
Key words: comb cassette, honey yield, profitability
