Srinagar, Feb. 12 -- Dancing from the apple blooms to saffron flowers and other flora , the bees of Jammu and Kashmir are busy rewriting fortunes since the past three years.

With a 77% increase in production in three years, beekeeping is now thriving. The credit goes to good returns and government intervention.

The government said that the production of honey has increased by over 77% in the past three years taking it currently to 3,895 MT. "Honey production has risen sharply from 2,200 MT to over 3,895 MT in the last three years, placing J&K among the country's leading honey producers," lieutenant governor Manoj Sinha had said in his inaugural speech of the J&K assembly session.

The recently released economic survey report of the J&K ...