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1999 - 81 minutes !. Appropriate Beekeeping Technology (25min) 2. Processing and Marketing of Bee Products (29min) 3. Management of Bees in Top-Bar Hives (32min)
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Three videos on one tape available from Bees for Development price 25
Bees for Development provides Workshop 3oxes to Zambia “Thanks so much for the Workshop Box of teaching materials containing 100 issues of B&D, wall charts, and other information from
Bees for Development” Weston Davy Sakala, District Forestry Officer, Nchelenge, Zambia
“Thank you Bees for Development. am glad to write that the Workshop |
Box we received in May 1999 assisted us very much to organise beekeepers’
groups in three different development associations in Nchelenge District.” Gaspard Mwangilwa, Nchelenge
Beekeepers’ Association, Zambia
The average cost to Bees for
Development of one Workshop Box, which provides copies of B&D, posters, books and information leaflets for up to 100 people, is 50 (US$80). We need help to continue providing this service. Please contact us (address on page two) if you can help.
Nchelenge Beekeepers, Association, Luapula Province, Zambia
The video shows people handling bees gently and expertly. It catches the excitement of bringing home a new swarm, and of people enjoying their beekeeping work. It has been made by the six-year project at Mpongwe in Zambia that has successfully established effective training, extension and
marketing.
For people working in Africa, the video will bring fresh ideas for running a profitable enterprise. For people outside Africa, the video shows exactly how useful beekeeping can be in rural, remote places. It also reveals just what kind of equipment is appropriate and able to survive a typical African year of rains, forest fires, hot sun, floods, bumpy roads, too many predators and too few resources.
The whole programme consists of three sections: Part
describes beekeeping development underway in a rural area of Africa: Mpongwe in the Copperbelt Province of Zambia. |
Top-bar hives are being promoted. Timber is expensive here, and excellent cost-free hives are made from clay. The video shows clearly how to make these, and discusses their advantages and disadvantages. Cement hives cost more, but bring some extra benefits. The video explains how the project assists farmers using a team of private (non-government) extension staff, and makes credit available. Part
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MIOMBO WOODLAND EXCELLENT FOR BEES Miombo woodlands are the largest continuous dry deciduous forests in the world. They extend across much of Central, Eastern and Southern Africa: Angola, DR Congo, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe share some 2.8 million km? of miombo woodland. That is 2.8 million km? of beekeeping!
Il describes the processing and marketing of products. Much honey for sale in Zambia is from honey hunting of wild colonies or from bark hive beekeeping. Subsequently the honey’s water content is high. The project has hit upon the idea of using this to make good quality honey wine, ‘mead’. The video shows honey being harvested from top-bar hives and simple ways to process honey and beeswax. The project has developed some novel marketing lines and shows good ideas for adding value to honey and beeswax crops.
Part Ill focuses on the management of bees in top-bar hives. The video does not claim to cover every aspect, but provides a good insight into obtaining bees and looking after them during the year. An excellent video. Congratulations to all the team at Mpongwe!
