In remote villages of the Himalayan Garhwal region of Uttarakhand, more than four thousand small and marginal farmers have taken up beekeeping on a commercial scale through the Farmer Producer Organization (FPO), Devbhumi Natural Products Producer Company Limited (DNPPCL). This FPO has lent loans to its farmer members for taking up beekeeping and honey production as a source of livelihood. It has also used grant assistance for training, capacity building and market promotion of the locally processed honey. Both the loan and grant assistance flow from the innovative joint venture of National Bank of Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) and Germany based development bank Deutsche Gesellschaft. This joint venture extends need based assistance to FPOs for promoting natural resource-based livelihoods and enterprises.