Vol. 11, Issue 12 (2022)

Author(s):
Dwarka, Dr. Anand Kumar Panday and Dr. AK Saxena

Abstract:
An experiment was conducted at experimental farm of PC Unit Sesame and Niger, College of Agriculture, Jawaharlal Nehru Krishi Vishwa Vidyalaya, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, during kharif 2021 and 2022. To determine the impact of bee attractants on the attraction of giant honey bees Apis dorsata and their impact on seed yield in niger crop, the experiment was set up using a randomized block design with nine treatments and three replications. Research found that the both at 10% and 50% flowering stage Apis dorsata visit was numerically highest with treatment, mahua flower extract 10% with 50.71 and 52.46 giant honey bees /m²/5 min respectively followed by rose water spray with 43.58 and 44.96 giant honey bees/m²/5 min respectively. The population of giant honey bees was received from the open pollination without any spray (15 and 17.21 giant honey bees/m²/5 min at 10% and 50% flowering stage respectively) followed by water spray (18.67 and 19.76 giant honey bees/m²/5 min at 10% and 50% flowering stage respectively). The foliar spray of mahua flower extract and dates extract 10% were found significantly superior over others in respect to record higher seed yield and recorded 6.96 q and 6.93 q/ha seed yield per ha respectively.