The Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar recently inaugurated this cooperative programme.
Under the programme, five farmer producer organisations are to be set up in five states.
They are to be established in East Champaran, Bihar; Bharatpur, Rajasthan; Morena, Madhya Pradesh; Mathura, Uttar Pradesh; and Sundarbans, West Bengal.
The organisations are to be set up by NAFED, National agricultural Cooperative marketing federation of India.
According to the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations, India ranks 8th in the world in terms of honey production.
On other hand, China stands first in Honey production.