CROPS, POLLINATION, FOOD: WHY WE NEED BEES
CROPS, POLLINATION, FOOD: WHY WE
NEED BEES
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33% of the world's yields need fertilization to set seeds
and natural products and a dominant part of them are pollinated by honey bees.
Alongside different pollinators, honey bees are as of now endangered by human
action. There is a worldwide decrease in the honey bee population, because of
reasons like over the top utilization of bug sprays, living space misfortune,
natural surroundings fracture, honey bee irritations, and illnesses, and
environmental change.
So as to bring issues to light about their basic job in
supportable turn of events, the United Nations has proclaimed May 20 as World
Bee Day.
There are almost 25,000 types of honey bees: 70-80% of the
world's yields/plants are pollinated by wild honey bees while 15-20% are
pollinated by honeybees. These pollinators additionally give a significant
biological system administration that is basic for supporting the wild greenery
biodiversity. For instance, if there should arise an occurrence of pigeonpea,
Apis mellifera, A. dorsata, An indica (Pathak, 1970), Megachile spp. (Williams,
1977; Zeng-Hong et al. 2011), and Xylocopa spp. (Onim, 1981) are significant
sources of normal cross-pollination.
Impact of honey bee fertilization on crop
It builds seed yield and natural product yield in numerous
harvests.
It improves the nature of foods grown from the ground.
Honey bee pollination builds the oil substance of seeds in a
sunflower.
Honey bee pollination is an unquestionable requirement in
some self-incongruent yields for seed set.
Crops profited by honey bee pollination
Leafy foods, apple, apricot, peach, strawberry, citrus and
litchi
Vegetable and Vegetable seed crops: Cabbage, cauliflower,
carrot, coriander, cucumber, melon, onion, pumpkin, radish and turnip
Oilseed crops: Sunflower, niger, rapeseed, mustard,
safflower, gingelly.
Search seed crops: Lucerne, clover
Developed field crops: Pigeonpea, lentils, clovers, Lucerne,
mustard, assault, linseed, sesame, gingelly, buck-wheat, Cambodia, safflower,
millet, and sunflower
Lumber trees: Neem, Cassia fistula, Acacia, Albizzia,
Kachnar (Bauhinia purpurea), eucalyptus, sandalwood, raintree, wild cherry
Regular and decorative blossoms: Cosmos, shoe bloom,
brilliant bar, cup, and saucer, Tecoma stans, zinnia,
coral creeper (Antigonon leptopus), rose, Rangoon creeper,
aster, wild rose (Kuja), hydrangea, violet, portulaca, poinsettia, honeysuckle,
cornflower, coreopsis, dandelion, and so forth.
What we should do:
Change to eco-accommodating pesticides
Limit intensive agriculture
Keep up normal natural surroundings inside an agriculture
mosaic
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