Beekeeping has become a profession of income generating and existence of 240,000 colonies of honeybee in all the four provinces and Azad Kashmir is proving its advancement and success.

The profession can easily be adopted as an income generating activity, especially by women as it does not require big investments or infrastructure.

According to official sources here on Tuesday an increase in average yield of honey per colony has been registered from 4 kg to 21 kg while an increase in total production of honey in the country has increased from 250 tonnes to 2500 tonnes since 1982.