Call for Papers

Background:

The apiculture industry faces significant challenges related to honey production and quality due to suboptimal forage resource management. Honeybees require diverse and nutrient-rich floral sources for nectar and pollen to sustain colony health, maximize honey yield, and enhance honey composition. However, key major problems for efficient forage utilization include:

1. Lack of Forage Mapping & Optimization: The absence of a comprehensive forage database and spatial analysis techniques limits beekeepers' ability to identify high-value nectar and pollen sources across different ecological zones.
2. Seasonal Forage Scarcity & Floral Gaps: Limited availability of flowering plants during critical periods results in reduced nectar flow, affecting colony strength and honey production.
3. Nutritional Deficiencies in Bee Diets: Variability in pollen protein content and nectar sugar composition affects colony health, brood rearing, and honey quality.
4. Impact of Climate Change & Land Use Changes: Shifts in temperature, rainfall patterns, and agricultural practices alter floral phenology and availability, disrupting bee forage cycles.
5. Pesticide Contamination & Forage Toxicity: Residual pesticides from agricultural crops infiltrate nectar and pollen sources, impacting honey purity and bee health.

Goal/Rationale:

To address the challenges and problems, this symposium aims to provide the hands on training on optimize honeybee forage sources by identifying high-value nectar and pollen plants, enhancing forage availability, and improving honey production and quality in the apiculture industry. The proposed symposium will be confined to:

• Conducting geospatial and botanical analyses to map and classify high-value floral resources.
• Assessing seasonal nectar and pollen availability to design year-round forage solutions.
• Analysing nectar sugar profiles and pollen nutritional content to determine optimal forage combinations.
• Investigating the effects of climate and land-use changes on honeybee forage sustainability.
• Establishing best practices to minimize pesticide exposure and enhance honey purity.

Scope and Information for Participants:

The proposed symposium will provide the scientific, technological, and policy-driven solutions to optimize honeybee forage resources, ensuring a more productive and environmentally sustainable apiculture industry. The proposed symposium will be an interdisciplinary (Botany, chemistry, forestry, apiculture, anthropology and economics), collaborative including experts from universalities, public sector departments, rural organization, NGOs and some private organizations that integrate botanical, biochemical, environmental, and technological approaches to develop a comprehensive forage optimization framework by identification, optimization, and sustainable management of honeybee forage resources to enhance honey production and quality in apiculture industry. The most important scope includes:

1. Geographic Scope by Covering major ecological zones for commercial and indigenous beekeeping practices in key honey-producing regions.
2. Forage Resource Assessment & Management through remote sensing and GIS.
3. Impact of Environmental & Agricultural Factors including climate change, deforestation, pesticide pollution on the quality of Honey.
4. Honey Production & Quality Enhancement by determining forage diversity with honey yield, physicochemical properties and medicinal value, and specifically development of honey authentication techniques based on international exports protocols.
5. Technological & Analytical Methods using geospatial mapping (GIS, remote sensing), use of GCMS, HPLC and predictive models for forage optimization and honeybee industry.
6. Sustainable beekeeping & industry Development through sustainable forage management strategies to enhance apiculture productivity; trainings for beekeepers on optimized forage selection, pesticides risks managements and climate resilience.

Submission:

Prospective authors are kindly invited to submit full papers that include title, abstract, introduction, tables, figures, conclusion and references. It is unnecessary to submit an abstract in advance. Please submit your papers in English.

Each paper should be no less than 4 pages. One regular registration can cover a paper of 6 pages, and additional pages will be charged. Please format your paper well according to the conference template before submission. Paper Template Download

Please prepare your paper in both .doc/.docx and .pdf format and submit your full paper by email with both formats attached directly to sympo_lahore@icmmgh.org

Important Dates:

Publication:

Accepted papers of the symposium will be published in Theoretical and Natural Science (TNS) (Print ISSN 2753-8818), and will be submitted to Conference Proceedings Citation Index (CPCI), Crossref, CNKI, Portico, Engineering Village (Inspec), Google Scholar and other databases for indexing. The situation may be affected by factors among databases like processing time, workflow, policy, etc.

Publication info

Title: Theoretical and Natural Science (TNS)
Press: EWA Publishing, United Kingdom
ISSN: 2753-8818, 2753-8826 (electronic)

This symposium is organized by ICMMGH 2026 and it will independently proceed the submission and publication process.

* The papers will be exported to production and publication on a regular basis. Early-registered papers are expected to be published online earlier.