A Preliminary Microscopical Study of Honey Pollen of Two North Eastern States of India

The present study is a firsthand attempt to decipher the pollen pictures of honey samples from two north- eastern states of India for their botanical origin and geographical source through Melissopalynology. The samples for this study were collected from Sairang Village, Mizoram and Wokha Village, Nagaland respectively maintaining an aseptic condition to avoid any contamination. The study revealed the nature of honey samples, unifloral or multifloral type and their frequencies in each sample. Upon analyses, the samples were also categorized based on the frequencies of the different morphotypes present in the samples which in turn indicated the partial vegetational picture of that area. The botanical origin has been indicated as far as possible of the samples, but it could not be possible to identify the geographical source of origin because of complete absence of any detailed published work on vegetational pictures of these states. The aim of this study is to characterisation and categorisation of honey samples for labelling their quality and quantity of the pollen content in honey samples along with their possible origin could be efficiently utilized for upliftment of financial status of the rural inhabitants of states.