Gurugram: Indian Farmers Fertiliser Cooperative Limited (IFFCO) in collaboration with its subsidiary dedicated for farm forestry, Indian Farm Forestry Development Cooperative Limited (IFFDC), today organised a program to celebrate World Honey Bee Day. Sh. Jalaj Srivastava, additional secretary, Ministry of Agriculture Cooperation & Family Welfare, GOI was the chief guest at the event which was organised at FMDI Auditorium, IFFCO Township, Sector 17-B, Near IFFCO Chowk, Gurugram.
United Nations and Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) have recently announced to commemorate May 20th 2018 as the first ever ‘World Honey Bee’ Day in order to spread awareness about honey bee and bee keeping. The future of food security also depends upon the bees as they are one of the largest pollinators.
World Honey Bee Day organised by IFFCO and IFFDC is in line with various programmes set up on the idea of our Prime Minister Sh. Narendra Modi ji’s vision of doubling the farmers’ income by 2022. Sh. Yogendra Kumar, marketing director, IFFCO and Sh. SP Singh, chief executive, IFFDC along with over 200 farmers from adjoining areas attended the event.
Speaking on the occasion, Sh. Jalaj Srivastava, additional secretary, Ministry of Agriculture Cooperation & Family Welfare, GOI said. “Honey bee breeding is a natural way to increase productivity and efficiency in the nature. Current government is also implementing various programmes to promote honey bee keeping. This also helps farmers, especially women in generating additional income apart from the regular farm income. Honey bee keeping plays a crucial role towards increasing farmers’ income. The steps by IFFCO and IFFDC are commendable in this regard to promote honey bee keeping among agri-farmers.”
Sh. Yogendra Kumar, marketing director, IFFCO said on the occasion, “IFFCO and IFFDC are working tirelessly for the upliftment of rural farmers through its various programmes. In line with the prime minister’s appeal to increase honey bee keeping and production, IFFCO and IFFDC have started a central programme to promote honey bee keeping among farmers. We have received very favourable response from the farmers so far. We would continue to work towards various such farmers’ first initiatives affecting over 4 crore farmers across India, directly associated with IFFCO.”
