What is apiculture? What is its importance?

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Apiculture is artificial rearing of honey bees to obtain various bee products.
Various products such as honey, wax, pollen, bee venom, propolis (bee glue) royal jelly, etc. are obtained from this cottage industry. Honey is an important item as ayurvedic medicine and in food due to its nutritional value.
Bees also help in the cross pollination of various crops. Hence in pastures, wild shrubs, fruit orchards and cultivated crops, honeybees play an important role as pollinators.
Bee keeping in crop fields increases the productivity of both honey and the crop.
Apiculture itself is a means for employment for rural youth. It is an age old cottage industry which can be done along with agriculture.

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Column I	Column II
(1) Acrosome	(a) Completion of IInd meiotic division of secondary oocyte
(2) Penetration of sperm into ovum	(b) Dissolution of zona pellucida
(3) Formation of fertilization membrane	(c) Secretion of Hyaluronidase
(4) Acrosin / Zona lysine	(d) Prevention of polyspermy

Column A	Column B
(1) Nutritive tissue of embryo	(a) Perisperm
(2) Remnants of nucellus in seed	(b) Cotyledon
(3) Nutritive tissue of developing microspores	(c) Endosperm
(4) First photosynthetic organ of embryo	(d) Tapetum