In order to develop beekeeping as a successful and prosperous agriculture business, NDDB is implementing the “National Beekeeping and Honey Mission” (NBHM) scheme with the support of Dairy Cooperatives and other agencies.
The main objective of the scheme is to promote scientific beekeeping for holistic growth of the beekeeping industry for income and employment generation, providing livelihood support to farm and non-farm household, to enhance agriculture/ horticulture production, developing infrastructural facilities, including Integrated Beekeeping Development Centre (IBDC)/ CoE, Honey Processing Plant, Testing Lab etc., and developing and promoting latest technologies in beekeeping.
NDDB conducts capacity building and technology demonstration programmes aimed at equipping farmers with both technical know-how and practical skills necessary for scientific beekeeping.
NDDB is encouraging dairy cooperatives and other organisations to set up post harvest infrastructure facilities such as honey testing labs and processing plants.