admin | January 18, 2024
This edition’s story from Cote d’Ivoire focuses on the benefits of beekeeping, and our Script of the week is a backgrounder that goes into more detail about the processes involved in keeping bees.
Though the backgrounder focuses on the situation in Ethiopia, a lot of the information is applicable to beekeeping in other African countries.
Here are some of the ways that the information in this backgrounder can help your listeners. It can help them:
- Learn how beekeeping can generate employment and income.
- Understand bees’ roles not just for honey production but as pollinators.
- Become familiar with beekeeping by-products such as wax.
- Identify the plants which provide pollen and nectar required for bees to make honey.
- Understand the equipment necessary for beekeeping and harvesting honey.
- Understand how to select a good location for hives.
- Understand the types of hives that can be used to keep bees.
- Know the average income that can be earned from beekeeping.
- Maintain honey quality after harvesting.
- Understand the best way to market their harvested honey.
- Understand the importance of being a member of a honey co-operative.
- Understand the advantages of producing pure honey.
- Understand marketing issues, including market access and competitiveness.
Sections of the backgrounder include:
- Key facts
- Big challenges
- Gender aspects of honey production in Ethiopia
- Predicted impact of climate change on honey production in Ethiopia
- Pollination
- Selecting sites for the apiary
- Beekeeping calendar
- Harvesting
- Marketing
- Youth