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BEE FARMING IN KENYApresented
by
Solomon TunganiEshirembe Youth Bunge
Email: [email protected]
25th October 2012, Golf Hotel, Kakamega
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PRESENTATION STRUCTURE
•Introduction •Importance of beekeeping
•Honey production and marketing structure •Factors affecting production and marketing •Why different honey colours? •Other hive products •Acknowledgement
•References
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INTRODUCTION
• Honey is one of the few natural products used as food as well as medicine
• The technologies used to produce honey are
simple hives which can be made by carpenters
• Environmental pollution is a problem to clean honey production and should be prevented.
The Hives used to keep honey bees
Langstroth
KTBH
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Employment opportunities for over the 60% youth in Kenya
Food security with honey consumption
Value addition of hive products into lotion, soap, lipstick
Income generation through sale of honey and beeswax
Increased crop and fruit yields through bee pollination
IMPORTANCE OF BEE KEEPING
Use of honey and propolis as medicine and tincture for throat
Honey production and marketing structure
Farmers
Co-operatives
Local market
Outside market
Liquid honeyComb honeyIndustry use
Direct
marketing
Second level marketing
• Hives of required measure• Prices
•Environmental &
•Other factors
• Quality of honey• Hives used• Change in climate
Why different honey colours?
This is because of plants from where bees
collect their nectar and pollen
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FACTORS AFFECTING HONEY PRODUCTION
• The type of hive used, Kenya top bar or Langstroth
• Poor honey harvesting methods• Gender of people keeping bees e.g Youth,
women or men
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FACTORS AFFECTING HONEYMARKETING
• High Prices• Information shortage• Which honey people want, liquid honey or
comb
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Tropical countries or regions with legislation, standard or codex. (IBRA,1977; Crane 1990). Kenya has Vision 2030
(12)Africa
(20)America
(13)Asia(2)
Oceania
(26)Europe
Tropical countries or regions with legislation, standard or codex
(IBRA, 1977; Crane, 1990)
Africa
America
Asia
Oceania
Europe
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MAJOR PROBLEMS IN BEEKEEPING
1. Cutting down trees
2. Poor quality honey
3. How to carry honey after harvest before
the bees follow you
4. Overheating honey
5. Poor handling of honey
6. How to produce a lot of honey and sell
OTHER HIVE PRODUCTS
• Beeswax
• Propolis
• Royal jelley
• Pollen
• Bee venom
• Bee brood (‘Amana,’ ready to eat protein)
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Acknowledgement
1. The Organizers and sponsors, USAID
2. National Beekeeping station for required information on telephone
3. Eshirembe Youth Bunge Members for the required
Support
4. The venue where this workshop is being held
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References
• The National Beekeeping Station, Nairobi, Kenya.
• Kenya population census report, 2009
• IBRA, 1977
• Eva Crane, 1990
• Vision 2030
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