Bees pollinate plants, maintain ecological balance, maintain plant species diversity and improve crop yield and quality; Bees also provide honey, propolis, royal jelly and other bee products, providing basic raw materials for various industrial and civil products to protect people's health.

Bee keeping is not restricted by urban and rural areas, does not occupy cultivated land, is pollution-free, can effectively improve the ecology, has stable value of bee products, can obviously increase the income of bee farmers, and is a good way for farmers to get rich. A group of bees can produce 20 ~ 30 kilograms of honey, several kilograms of royal jelly and more than 0.25 kilograms of beeswax a year, and their income is more than that of a big fat pig. A labor force can raise 50 ~ 100 bees, and the income is considerable.

The content of this article comes from: China Agricultural Publishing House, local chronicles of China.