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Attending a bee-keeping seminar in Morogoro

20/12/2012

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Last week, two KIHO board member and our two new volunteers from Europe have successfully visited Morogoro. After a long trip in the bus, we participated for three days at a bee-keeping seminar facilitated by Prof. Msaliwa at this prestigious university. This training will certainly be helpful to strengthen our efforts to support bee-keeping groups in our region with technical and managerial advice how to start or improve their bee-keeping practices.


PictureEntrance to Sokoine University
The seminar included around a dozen participants that were all curious of how the process to produce honey is functioning in detail. Net to theoretical inputs and discussions, we also visited show farms where bee hives were integrated with agriculture, thus so-called “agro-forests”. Beekeeping in Africa is of course one of the new mechanism to generate income as this website points out. Honey is a highly demanded product in Tanzania and the whole African continent. Throughout Tanzania, honey is sold for about TSH 10,000-15,000 per liter (€5-7.5 or $6-10). The smallholder farmers don’t have much work and when certain standards are observed, starting with the correct hanging of beehives up to proper and clean processing of honey, bee-keeping is one of the best opportunities that are around.

Another option is to keep small bees that are not as aggressive as the “normal” bees. They can even be kept around your house without hurting any human beings or the livestock. However, it takes much longer to produce a certain quantity of honey. If you have a liter of honey though, it can be sold for TSH 40,000 per liter (€20 or $28). Thus, the small bees are also a great way to earn some additional income in your family.

Honey can be used as food, medicine or cream. By-products of honey include candles, creams, medicine especially for the ski), chewing gum, invite bees into your bee-hive or also material for shoe-makers. It also has to be remembered that bees are mainly responsible for pollination, hence helping our small-holder farmers to have a good harvest of their crops.


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Didas Jackson A
8/5/2015 05:24:32 am

I wish to open a large beekeeping farm/project, but the problem became on how can I get the required equipment

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27/8/2022 08:36:40 am

Greaat blog post

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