Honey worth ` 716 crore (US $96.77 million) was exported in year 2020-21, owing to ICAR developed technologies for meliponiculture, i.e. Scientific domiciles for stingless bees; integrated management of swarming and absconding in Apis cerana; low cost technology for artificial domicilation of solitary bees, etc. Capacity building of rural youth and women for bee keeping, value-addition and marketing.