Everybody knows that the honey is the product of the nectar gathered on flowers by bees.

The transformation of the nectar in honey results from two phenomena:
- The evaporation of water contained in the nectar in the body of the bee and in the alveoli of the hive by ventilation.
- The chemical transformation of the nectar in honey which begins in the jabot of the bee under the influence of its saliva.

What we know less it is that the honey also serves for feeding bees.

Actually, if provisions in honey are insufficient or if the winter and the spring is too cold and rainy so that bees can produce it, the beekeepers have resorts to artificial food for bees.

And to be made, they use some syrup of sugar!!

It is this common process, but often criticized as long it is contrary to the conception that we are made of the production of honey, that the Indian beekeepers are going to try to change thanks to stevia.

Indeed, the Indian government launched in the end of August, 2006 a program called "Sugar Free Honey" (Honey without added sugar) which has for vocation in 2007 on 5000 experimental hives to feed the bees only from extracts of stevia and not from sugar.

The sweetening agents contained in the honey produced by bees in its hives will thus result no more syrup of sugar.

This program is ambitious because the objective is to produce in fine this new honey in 100 000 hives.

The Indian government incites even the farmers to become beekeepers by suggesting financing the fifth of the investment in necessary equipment.

No doubt that such an iniciative could have consequences with our own beekeepers, for the biggest happiness of the producers of stevia.