Influence of Attractants on Bees Pollination and Enhancing the Yield of Mustard

Author: P.K. Jatav, Ashok S. Yadav, S. Balpande and Prince Mahore

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Abstract

However, numerous factors such as pests and diseases, pesticides, hazards, poor nutrition, poor management and changes in environmental conditions reduce the number of bee colonies, all of which directly or indirectly show an effect on the pollination of agricultural crops, for better pollination and increasing pollination efficiency, we use various types of bee attractants. Among the bee attractants used in mustard crop to evaluated the effect on qualitative and quantitative parameters viz., number of siliquae (pod/plant), siliquae length, number of seeds (seeds/siliquae and seeds/plant), test weight (g/1000 seeds) and total seed yield; treatment Bee-Q @ 1.25 per cent with open pollination was found superior in above parameters. The differences in pollination without insect and open pollination along with bee attractants were significant about almost all aspect. Spraying of bee attractants especially Bee-Q, Jaggery gave higher yield of mustard seed in terms of both quality and quantity when compare to crop caged without bees and open pollination without spraying.

Keywords

Attractants, siliquae, pollination, honeybee, Bee-Q, Jaggery, mustard, qualitative and quantitative

Conclusion

Among the all the indigenous food attractants Bee-Q @ 1.25% solution attracted maximum number of bees followed by Jaggery @ 10% and Sugar solution @ 10%. Honey bee species showed better activity during 1st day after spraying at 10 and 50 per cent flowering but the better results in case of number of siliquae (pod/plant), siliquae length, number of seeds (seeds/siliquae and seeds/plant), test weight (g/1000 seeds) and total seed yield were observed in Bee-Q @ 1.25 per cent treated open pollinated crop plot. The differences in pollination without insect and open pollination along with bee attractants were significant with regard to almost all aspect. Spraying of bee attractants especially Bee-Q, Jaggery Coriander and Sugar solution gave higher yield of mustard seed in terms of both quality and quantity when compare to crop caged without bees and also open pollination without spraying.

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How to cite this article

P.K. Jatav, Ashok S. Yadav, S. Balpande and Prince Mahore (2023). Influence of Attractants on Bees Pollination and Enhancing the Yield of Mustard. Biological Forum – An International Journal, 15(1): 643-646.