Honey is a sweet fluid produced by honey bees from flower nectar. It has a long history of human consumption and is used as a sweetener and flavoring in foods and beverages. There are three main castes of honeybees in a hive: the queen bee who lays eggs, drones who are male bees, and workers who are sterile females that raise larvae, collect nectar, and comprise the bulk of the hive population. To produce honey, worker bees collect nectar and regurgitate and store it in honeycomb cells. Through fanning their wings, the bees evaporate water from the nectar to raise the sugar concentration and prevent fermentation. A typical hive contains 1 queen,

1. Honey Production & Processing

2. Honey
• Sweet fluid produced by honey bees.
• Derived from flower nectar.
• Sweetness comes from monosaccharide's
,fructose and glucose.
• It has a long history in human consumption
and is used in various foods and beverages as
a sweetener and flavoring agent

4. CASTES OF HONEYBEES
1.QUEEN
• It is the mother of the colony
• There is only one queen in a hive
• She can lay over 1500 eggs per day
• She will live for 2-8 years
2.DRONES
• Drones are male member of the family
• They are present in few hundred in number
in a hive
• Their life span is 6-8 weeks
• They are stingless, defenseless and unable to
feed themselves

5. 3. WORKERS
• They are sterile females.
• The worker bee comprises the bulk of the
population in the colony
• The worker cells are flat hexagonal cells.
• The workers usually live for about 5-6 weeks.

6. Honey Production
• Bee collect honey as a food source
• After collecting nectar the bees use their honey
stomachs to ingest and regurgitate the nectar a
number of times until it is partially digested
• It is then stored in honeycomb cells
• After the final reguritation the honeycomb
is left unsealed

7. • The process continues as bees
inside the hive fan their wings to
create a strong draft across the
honeycomb
• This enhances evaporation which
raises the sugar concentration and
prevents fermentation

8. Inside the Hive
• 1 Queen bee
• Seasonally variable number of drone male
bees
• 20,000-40,000 female worker bees
– They raise the larve and collect the nectar
that becomes honey in the hive

11. PROCESSING OF HONEY
• Uncap combs
• Insert in extractor
• Crank centrifuge
• Honey draining
• Close up
• Our output

12. • Royal jelly (Rs.6000/- Per kg)
• Marhaba Honey
• Shandor Honey
• Bless Beri Honey

13. Classifying Honey By Its Floral Source
• Classified by the floral source of the nectar
from which it was made
• Honeys can be from specific types of flower
nectars, from indeterminate origins or
blended after collection

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