It's mid-March in Muzaffarpur, and the lychee trees are almost in bloom in this remote corner of northern India. When the flowering begins, beekeepers like Manoj Kumar Singh will take their hive boxes to the edges of the nearby orchards, leaving their bees to produce the region's renowned lychee honey. Beekeeping is a tradition in Muzaffarpur, and for decades, so was poverty. "If you had guests, you'd wonder, How are we even going to offer them a cup of tea?" he says. But honey prices have tripled in the past few years, and that's afforded Singh, 33, enough income to hire a full-time employee, purchase new plots of land, build an addition to his brick house and buy a new motorbike to ride around his village.
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