Journal of Community Mobilization and Sustainable Development

Beekeeping is an environment friendly and agro-forestry based occupation. It provides enormous potential for income generation, poverty alleviation and sustainable use of forest resources. Uttarakhand has huge potential for beekeeping due to plenty of flora and suitability of climate. Beekeeping is an ancient practice that is managed traditionally in Kumaon hills of Uttarakhand. Due to the traditional production system the productivity per hive is low in Uttarakhand. Uttarakhand is extremely rich in Bee forage plants but the use of this rich resource is not being made properly (Tiwari et al., 2010). The result of the study will be useful to the extension workers, administrators and communication experts, researchers and planners who are engaged in generating and disseminating the recommended beekeeping technologies to the beekeepers. This paper discusses the relationship between various profile characteristics of the Beekeepers and the extent of adoption of the recommended beekeeping practices.