Scilight Press

The use of bee attractants is one of the eco-friendly techniques to lure the bees to the target crop for enhancing pollination and thereby increasing yield of the crop. In this experiment, spraying of bee attractants had significant effect in attracting bees to mustard. In mustard, sugar solution 5 and 10%, honey solution 5 and 10% and molasses solution 5 and 10%, was good but maximum bee attracting was recorded in treatment sprayed with jaggery solution 10% and found to be superior in attracting a greater number of bees compared to the control where there was no treatment applied. Application of bee attractants enhanced the quantitative yield parameters of mustard like oil content, number of seeds per pod, etc.