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Question
Write advantages of bee keeping.
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Solution
Some of the advantages of bee-keeping are as follows:
(i) It increases the production of honey.
(ii) Wax collected from the beehives helps in various medicinal preparations.
(iii) They provide propolis and balms that are used in repairing and fastening of comb.
(iv) Poison of bee is used in manufacturing of Ayurvedic and homeopathic medicines.
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