The National Bee Board and Forest Research Institute will work jointly to promote honey culture programmes in forestry sectors, which will be very useful for poverty alleviation and for improvement and social upliftment of the poor villagers, who will participate in beekeeping and honey culture. This decision was taken following a meeting between Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education DG VK Bahuguna, and National Bee Board executive director BL Saraswat in the presence of FRI Forest Entomology division head Mohammed Yusuf. Saraswat pointed out that there is ample scope for promoting bee keeping in forestry sector. It was also suggested that there is need for developing quality nucleus stock of honeybees. Bee keeping with Joint Forest Management and a need of collaboration of ICFRE Institutes with National Bee Board was also discussed in the meeting. Further programmes on genetic improvement for the wild Indian honeybees for their promotion in forest were also discussed during the meet. In near future the broad network programmes for the development of quality nucleus stock of honey bees will be implemented by the ICFRE, wherein different institutes of the council especially Tropical Forest Research Institute, Jabalpur and FRI, Dehradun will play a crucial role. The programme on Bee-keeping with Joint Forest Management will focus on honey bee culture and honey extraction in the forestry sector. This honey from the forestry sector will be very useful and of high quality because it is free from insecticidal treatments.