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Honey collection improves when beehives are kept in crop-fields during flowering season. Explain.

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Honeybees are good pollinators of almost all the plants. The flowers in turn offer floral rewards like nectar and pollen grains. So, when beehives are kept in crop-fields during the flowering season, honey collection increases.
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