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Why are beehives kept in a crop field during flowering period ? Name any two crop fields where this is practised.

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Bees, while collecting nectar from flowers, transfer the pollen grains, Beehives are kept in a crop field during flowering period to enhance the pollination of the crop, which increases the crop yield. Also bees can easily collect hugs amounts of nectar from the flowers of the crop in a close reach without much foraging. This in turn increases the produciton of honey, e, g, this technique is practised apple and mustard fields.
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