A Sustainable Approach to Improve the Mustard (Brassica juncea) Yield and Quality Parameters by Bees Visitation in the Regions of Punjab-India

Background: Mustard is an oil seed crop and most oilseed crops are cross pollinated. A substantial increase in production requires adequate pollination. Rapeseed mustard both self-pollinated cross-pollinated plants. Brown sarson a pollinated whose reliant on honeybees wild insect pollinators. Methods: All parameters were carefully monitored during 2019-2021 growing year. blooming was visited by 12 species from 4 orders 7 families. Hymenopterans the common visitors followed others. Temperature sunshine increased honeybee foraging, while relative humidity, wind speed rainfall declined same. Result: In this present investigation, amongst various attractant used for attracting pollinators jaggery solution 10 per cent sugar found superior to attract maximum number of bees recorded highest yield more protein content seeds as compared other treatments.