SHIMPY SARKAR, ARSHDEEP SINGH*, ANITA JASWAL AND MANINDER SINGH
Department of Agronomy, School of Agriculture, Lovely Professional University, Phagwara-144 411 (Punjab),
India
*(e-mail : arshdeep.27269@lpu.co.in; Mobile : 85580 86139)
(Received : February 15, 2022; Accepted : March 8, 2022)
ABSTRACT
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.
Key words : Bees, pollinators, relative humidity, honey solution, molasses