Food Science and Quality Management www.iiste.org ISSN 2224-6088 (Paper) ISSN 2225-0557 (Online) Vol.74, 2018 18 Review of Past Literature of Honey Beekeeping and Its Production in Rural Area of the World Dr.Naushad Khan Assistant Professor, Institute of Development Studies, The University of Agriculture Peshawar Wali Khan Forest Officer Bajaur Agency Federal Administered Tribal Area Pakistan Abstract Honey beekeeping is the rearing of honey bee for honey and other by products. Honey is an essential element of food of human being. This business is in a full swing in the world. Seeing to its importance the study was arranged in 2018. The major objective was the past review of literature of honey beekeeping and its production in rural area of the world. So many researchers have done work on this topic while purposively 30 studies were selected and reviewed each study 15 times and analyzed the situation. The result indicates that honey beekeeping is a very useful occupation in the rural area of the world which play key role in generation of employment and alleviation of poverty in the world. However it supplies nutritional and ecological security to the rural communities at the household level. Honey beekeeping play key role in pollination and enhancing the agriculture production. This business provide honey and other by products to the world community which is essential element for health development of human being. The cost on this business is very small and everyone can start this business easily in the world without more money. The study further indicates that Apis Millifera give more production than the other species of honey bee in the world. Among top ten countries China was found number one while New Zealand number 10 in honey bee production in the world. The major constraints and problems in beekeeping were the expensive inputs, pest attack, lack of modern production, rearing techniques, marketing skill, trainings and credit facilities by bank. On the basis of problems the study recommend new honey beekeeping institution construction in the world; Training center for skill improvement is demanded; Transportation and marketing facilities are essential for development of this business in the study area ; Credit facilities on low interest rate should be provided to honey beekeepers for development of honey bee production in the study area. Bee flora flower plants multiplication for enhancement of honey bee rearing is requested. Keywords: Review of Past Literature, Honey beekeeping, Production. Rural Area of the World 1. Introduction A beekeeper keeps honey bees to collect honey and bee wax, to pollinate crops or to produce new honey bee colonies for sale to other beekeepers. The person who rear honeybees is known as beekeeper or apiarist and the location where honey bees are kept is called apiary or bee yard. This is concerned with the practical management of the social species of bees, which can live in large colonies of up to 100,000 individual bees. Honey bee keeping is the management of honey bee for production of honey, beeswax and other bee products for personal and commercial purpose. It has more than 20,000 species, some live in solitary form while some live in groups. All species honeybees are capable of interbreeding and hybridizing which then quickly spread around the world. In Pakistan the honey bees has four species, namely Apis Dorsata, Apis Cerana, Apis Florae and Apis Mellifera. Honey is an important nutritive and readily digested food containing sugar, protein, free amino acid, minerals, trace elements, enzymes and vitamins with a fairly high caloric value. Fructose, glucose and dextrose are directly absorbed into the blood and provide energy to the body. Honey also contain tiny amounts of several compounds which act as antioxidants. These includes such as Chrysin, Pinobanksin, Vitamin-C, Catalase and Pinocembrin. The specific composition of any honey depends on the flowers available to the bees that produce the honey. On the basis of floral sources the honey may be blended, poly floral, mono floral , honeydew etc. The Ph of honey is commonly between 3.2 and 4.5(Bredbear, 1990,2009). However children less than 12 years and old population of age above 50 years are considered to be the target for honey and honey products. People of all age use honey, however as it is an expensive item, low purchasing power of general consumer in Pakistan sets limit to the potential market for honey. The overall demand of honey for industrial use is 90 percent fulfilled by farm honey suppliers from Punjab and Khyber Pakhthunhwa, whereas remaining demand is covered by wild honey from Federally Administered Tribal Areas(SMEDA- Sindh, PREF-19/June, 2007/Rev1). Yet Pakistan has not been able to export honey and its products on large scale because it is not self sufficient in this field. Depending on the part of the country environment, quantity and quality be bee forages, quantity and quality of honeybee colony, typical colony of the species. A mellifera bee can produce 15-25Kg honey and 4.3-8.16 Kg of pollen in an average year. Besides selling honey and other bee products, such as beeswax, pollen, royal jelly, proposal, bee venom or queen, beekeeper can also provide pollination services(hive rentals) to farmers and Orchardists(Admin, 2011).