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Year Production Exports Domestic Export Domestic
Consumption* Share Share
2012-13 72,300 25,780 46,520 36% 64%

2017-18 105,000 51,550 53,450 49% 51%

2020-21 125,000 60,000 65,000 48% 52%

2024-25# 125,000 80,000 45,000 64% 36%
* Domestic consumption includes consumption in India + opening/closing stock of honey in India
# Estimates for 2024-25
fetching vital forex revenue for of per-capita consumption of
the Indian economy. honey in grams/person/year:
Domestic Consumption Ayurveda and Honey go
and Role of Consumers in India: hand in glove. Honey is a natural
Future of Indian Honey Industry sweetener with health benefits.
India’s domestic Replacing a few spoons of sugar

consumption peaked during with honey will ensure increased
COVID times and from there the domestic consumption, health
domestic consumption nose- for consumers in addition to
dived to pre-2012 period. In India, sustainability (to produce 1kg
per capita consumption of honey sugar we require 2500 litres of
is very low compared to the water). Indian consumers need
global average. Few examples

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