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NEWS FROM NJIRO Sustainable Beekeeping for Africa .
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NJIRO WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTRE is a ~-~y special institute devoted to the study of ‘ican bees and beekeeping. It is situated near Arusha, Tanzania in East Africa.
good team for fruitful work The Centre has four academic graduates and two more will complete University studies within the project
For several years now, Njifo’s main work has been a research project investigating ways of effective African beekeeping
The Director at Nyiro is Mr Liana Hassan The Research Co-ordinator is Mr B6rje Svensson, whose work is supported by SVS (Swedish Volunteer Service)
The project is developing simple, low-cost methods They must be environmentally sound The project’s objectives are @
To gain knowledge of equipment and methods that are appropriate for rural Africa
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To achieve excellent communication with people who want the information Programmes involve workshops and training courses Findings will also be made available through B&D
Nyro Wildlife Research Centre has three aplaries with 140 honeybee colonies, all in service for research The staff of 22 people plus another 12 service staff employed by the Serengeti Wildlife Research Institute make a A
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The team at Nyira Wildlife Research Centre
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The research project is funded by ODA (the United Kingdom Overseas Development Administration) Because research of this nature inevitably needs a Jong time, ODA have recently agreed to support the project fora further three years Phase II of the project commenced in October 1995, and 1s managed by Bees for Development.
Now that several years of work have been completed, Njiro 1s beginning to have tried and tested information to share with others In the article overleaf, Mr Stephen Liseki, one of the research team at Njiro, describes a good way to feed sugar syrup to bees kept in top-bar
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