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The Seattle Post-Intelligencer is out this week with a special report on the global honey industry that will leave a bitter taste in your mouth.
You have to feed hens to give you eggs and you need enough fodder for a cow to yield milk. But for bees it is a total contrast.
Despite finding their way into the European Union, Uganda’s honey exports have been falling off and Kampala remains at the bottom of the only four African countries that are eligible to export to the EU.
President Yoweri Museveni has advised African countries to take advantage of the $3b world honey market trade.
Australian honeybee businesses continue to struggle despite an improvement in income over the past six years, according to a new survey released today.
Under a joint venture, the honey producer, Watson & Son, and Te Runanga O Te Rarawa are to set up a training college which hopes to produce 200 bee-keepers in five years.
Honey exports from Brazil have bounced back from the falling figures observed in July and August this year. The result for the month of September reached US$ 4.9 million. The volume is four times greater than that seen in the same period in 2007 (US$ 1.09 million).
Home-produced honey could run out by Christmas because of a fall in the UK bee population, experts have warned.
Honey exports from Brazil totaled US$ 18.2 million in the first half of 2008, representing growth of 70% over the same period last year. The sum placed Brazil in the fifth position in the wortld exporter ranking. The figures were disclosed last Friday, September 12, by the Sectoral Chamber for the Honey Production Chain.
Ministry of Rural Development and Self Employment Promotions has taken steps to export Kitul honey to Japan under its national program.