author(s)
Bhupender Singh, Surender Singh, Narender Kumar and Dilip Kumar

abstract
Present study was conducted in Haryana state to see the adoption of beekeeping and constraints there in. Data was collected from six hundred people imparted training by SNIATTE, CCS HAU, Hisar during the year 2014-18. Study revealed that beekeeping is a male dominating enterprise carried out by young age people having low level of education, landless to small land holding and low income. Adoption of beekeeping as an enterprise was low, might be due to various constraints like priority to other activities, lack of land and resources, finance, marketing of honey and lack of quality equipments etc. At the same time, some factors like low initial investment, less labor intensive, less technical and good return favored the adoption of beekeeping. To support adoption of beekeeping, increase in awareness, provision of loan facilities and improvement in marketing structure of bee products are the major steps necessary to be taken by the government and other organizations.