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We have now registered ourselves as a cooperative and are being financed by the Government. We hope to market 5000 kg of honey this year and earn handsome profits Our woodworking machine has been in operation for six months and we have been making Langstroth hives using local varieties of timber. We are no longer dependent upon imported pine wood from outside Punjab. Eucalyptus wood, which was hitherto considered unsuitable for the purpose is now being seasoned by us using the field method. After sawing the green tree into planks we keep it immersed in 25% solution of urea for 24 hours and then assemble it before it gets time to get warped. Hives so made stay beeproof and also stand occasional wetting during the monsoon rains.
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February 1991 organised the first threeday beekeeping course here in Yaoundé, in french and english. More than 20 Cameroonians attended. Most of them started beekeeping right after the course. Throughout this year have a course every second Saturday in french. Ten Cameroonians have been attending regularly. work with modern frame hives and with topbar hives, and advise everyone to start with top-bar hives. Because equipment is a problem here I started to put some basic things together. Virtually everything is made locally. Occasionally someone has the money for an imported smoker but the ones made locally are very good. Some of the things are made in a rehabilitation centre for leprosy In
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[BRA charts sent by you have been framed by us and are regularly used during discussion in our outdoor classes. We are easily able to
show that honey quality and especially its tendency to granulate varies with the flower source. There is a mistaken belief here that granulated honey cannot be pure. The article on “low-cost foundation”
victims. would be happy if you could put my address in Beekeeping and Development. As time allows will organise further beekeeping courses and help people with advice and equipment My goal is that we can soon form a beekeeping club and newcomers can learn from the “oldies”.
(Beekeeping and Development 21) is an eye
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opener. We have been wasting wax on extra thick sheets thinking that we are providing extra strength to the comb. Now we know that the bees do not like a thick sheet and they do not let it stay thick. We shall now abandon that practice and save on wax which is in short supply
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My name and address are: Chris Hochstrasser, SIL/BP 1299 Yaoundé,
Major P S Pammi, Punjab Honey and Village Industries, Sanstha
Cameroon.
A class on beekeeping in the Punjab.
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The West Africa Beekeeping Association is in action! The Executive Committee have made a number of important decisions: each member country has been given unti! September 1992 to form, revive or consolidate their national beekeeping association. The Executive Committee agreed that the Secretariat of the Association should be based in The Gambia, the proposed Regional Research Centre and Library in Ghana, and the Training Centre in Mali. Preparations are underway for a seminar to be held in Ghana in the last quarter of 1993. Further details of the West Africa Beekeeping Association from Samuel Oppong (President), PO Box 300, Tema, Ghana. |
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Learning about bees
A Cameroonian
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beekeeper explains a traditional hive
