News about bees and beekeeping from around the world
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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.
The International Beekeeping Research Association (IBRA) African Research, in collaboration with the Tropical Agricultural Marketing and Consultancy Service (TRAGRIMACS), Sunflower Ghana, an NGO is organizing a two-day workshop on beekeeping to teach Ghanaians modern beekeeping techniques in Accra.
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.
Rwandan Pure natural honey impressed, attracting buyers and prospective investors in the honey industry at the recently concluded 2008 Apiculture Expo in Kampala.
Tanzania, a country that has exported honey to Europe since 1907 has only been able to use 4.5 percent of its national forests, despite being among few countries probably not more than ten in the world with a policy on bee-keeping.
Ugandan should take advantage of immense opportunities present in honey production, the Chairman of Apitrade Africa has said.
Paul Mboui’s family will soon move into the attractive new bungalow he is building. Then he will rent out his present compound as a warehouse to Guiding Hope, the honey trading company that has made him prosperous.
One Hundred and eighty participants, mostly women from a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) on Saturday, ended a two-week training programme on beekeeping at Oboadaka near Suhum in the Eastern Region.
A study by scientists from the Nairobi-headquartered international research centre icipe, in collaboration with the French Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD) has established that bees have the potential to mediate the escape of transgenes (genetically engineered material) from crops to their wild relatives over several kilometres.