Beekeeping · The craft

Host. Grow. Split.

This is how the project works. Three stages, in order. By the third, one hive has become two. And you have become a beekeeper.

How it works
01

Host

House a colony in a PolliHab®: on land, a rooftop, a balcony, a shared garden. The hive is their home. The bees do the rest.

02

Grow

Manage the colony through the seasons while the bees get on with their pollination work.

03

Split

Read the signs of a colony preparing to swarm and split it before it does. Instead of losing half the bees to the wild, the new colony is made deliberately.

Two ways to join.

From the farm

Farmers and estates host PolliHab hives and join with neighbours to form a pollination cluster. The pollination comes to them, fence to fence.

About clusters →
From the city

Hobbyists, gardeners and communities keep a colony in a PolliHab — on a balcony, rooftop or shared garden. When it is strong enough to split, the new colony goes onward to a farm that needs it.

Ready to host a hive? Registration lives in the Madhukosha app. It takes a minute, and it's free.

Join the project
Supported by PM-RKVY and Incubated at MANAGE-CIA.Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers' Welfare · PM-RKVY · MANAGE-CIA, Hyderabad
Pre-incubated at NSRCEL, IIM Bangalore.NSRCEL, IIM Bangalore