Practice Name:

Testing Purity of Honey

Details
Category	Others
Crop	Honey
Crop Family	Apidae
Scientific Name	Apis
Vernacular Name	madh
Scout	HBN
Ingredients
Details of Innovation	Ganpatbhai from Dang district of Gujarat used to collect and store honey at one time but now he no longer does this. Now, whenever he needs to buy honey, he follows an interesting test to check its purity. He lets fall 2-3 drops of honey on the floor and lights it with a match. If the honey is pure, i.e. extracted from a bee-hive, it will immediately catch fire. However, if it is spurious, i.e., made from sugar, it will not burn. He knows this method since years and tries it as and when required. Any kind of honey can be tested for its purity. A few people from his village know about this but do not put it to test as most of them get honey by extracting it from bee-hives rather than buying it. Ganpatbhai also employs some animal husbandry methods.

Innovator / Knowledge Provider	Ganpatbhai Govindbhai Dalvi
District	Dang
KVK District	Dangs (Waghai)
Address	Mu. Viramba, Po. Jakhana Aahava Dangs Gujarat
Languages Spoken
Vocation	Farming
State	Gujarat
PIN Code	394710

PAS_1	"Physical and chemical screening of honey samples available in the Saudi market: An important aspect in the authentication process and quality assessment" https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1319016418300938
PAS_2
Agro Ecological Zone	Agro Ecological Sub Region (ICAR) North Sahyadris and konkan coast hot humid eco sub region (19.1), Agro-Climatic Zone (Planning Commission) Gujarat plains and Hills region (XIII), Agro Climatic Zone (NARP) South Gujarat heavy rainfall area (GJ-1)
Other Community Practices
Practice ID	DTP0010000002368
Reference	Dang-2000/16
Annotation ID	GIAN/GAVL/279
State	Gujarat
PIN Code	394710