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Officials said since the motorboat of the ‘honey village’ successful Manghar, the colony has witnessed much than 1,00,000 visitors each year, and this has importantly accrued the income of the villagers. (Image: studiomars.co.in)
After successfully implementing its ‘honey village’ concept, the Maharashtra State Khadi and Village Industries Board (MSKVIB) said Monday it volition acceptable up 2 ‘honey parks’ successful the authorities to commencement ‘honey tourism’. The archetypal ‘honey park’ volition beryllium inaugurated Tuesday successful Mahabaleshwar, according to officials.
The Directorate of Beekeeping Industry, nether the Board, acceptable up the archetypal ‘Madhache Gaav’ oregon ‘honey village’ successful the Manghar colony adjacent the elevation municipality of Mahabaleshwar successful May 2022, followed by Patgaon successful the state’s Kolhapur district. Officials said since the motorboat of the ‘honey village’ successful Manghar, the colony has witnessed much than 1,00,000 visitors each year, and this has importantly accrued the income of the villagers.
As portion of the Republic Day celebrations, the Maharashtra Government displayed a tableau featuring its ‘Madhache Gaav’ task successful New Delhi. The Maharashtra Government has declared that 1 ‘Madhache Gaav’ volition beryllium developed successful each territory of the state.
“This is the archetypal of its benignant inaugural to acceptable up a chromatic park. It volition beryllium connected the premises of the Directorate of Honey successful Mahabaleshwar. It volition person astatine slightest 30 unrecorded chromatic beekeeping boxes which volition beryllium enactment successful 3 acres of its land,” said Ravindra Sathe, Chairman, MSKVIB.
Sathe said determination volition beryllium a honey-extracting machine, swarm net, instrumentality for the accumulation of queen bees, pollen traps, and different items. “This volition assistance successful giving a applicable objection to each those who privation to commencement a beekeeping business. This volition beryllium developed into a chromatic tourism destination. There volition beryllium a aviator beekeeping task astatine the parkland and make consciousness astir beekeeping and chromatic bees,” helium added.
The task is being implemented done CSR backing from Everest, a spice company. The backing of Rs 6 lakh volition beryllium utilized to commencement chromatic parks successful Mahabaleshwar and astatine Sanjay Gandhi National Park successful Mumbai’s Borivali. The Board besides plans to make 1 specified parkland successful each ‘honey village’ that it volition develop.
“The Directorate of Beekeeping successful the authorities is the lone directorate successful the state arsenic determination is nary specified directorate successful immoderate different state. We privation to marque it a centre of excellence. We are besides organising a state-level league of beekeepers connected May 20 connected Honey Bee Day,” said Sathe.
Ajay Jadhav is an Assistant Editor with The Indian Express, Pune. He writes connected Infrastructure, Politics, Civic issues, Sustainable Development and related stuff. He is simply a trekker and a sports enthusiast. Ajay has written probe articles connected the Conservancy unit that created a nationwide interaction successful framing argumentation to amended the information of workers handling waste. Ajay has been consistently penning connected authorities and infrastructure. He brought to airy the deficiency of basal infrastructure of schoolhouse and infirmary successful the hometown of Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde adjacent arsenic 2 backstage helipads were developed by the person who mostly commutes from Mumbai to Satara successful helicopter. Ajay has been reporting connected sustainable improvement initiatives that protects the situation portion ensuring infrastructure development. ... Read More
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