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Question
What is pasturage and how it is related to honey production?
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Solution
Pasturage is the availability of flowers to the bees for nectar and pollen collection.
Pasturage determines the taste, quality, and quantity of honey. Pasturage of honeybees include different variety of flowering plants such as mango, coconut, almond, tamarind, ber, berseem, litchi, cotton, sesame, apple, mahua, coriander, cashew, coffee, rubber plants, guava, sunflower, and neem.
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