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BEE FARMING IN KENYApresented

by

Solomon TunganiEshirembe Youth Bunge

Email: soltungani@gmail.com

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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