NEWS AROUNT CAMEROON Bonakanda-Bova Bee Farmers Group (BOBEEFAG) organised a two-day Workshop attracting 33 participants. We found the charts supplied for use at the Workshop by Bees for Development particularly useful.
BOBEEFAG is striving to produce good returns of high quality honey, beeswax and propolis for the ever increasing market for these products and at the same time conserving our biodiversity and environment.
We are welcoming new members to the Group on a regular basis. BOBEEFAG provides basic materials for the construction of top-bar hives. Our Group's bees contribute significantly to the pollination of cultivated crops throughout the local community.
The photograph shows Lyonga Mbake Samuel harvesting from one of his hives
NIGERIA In
April
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addressed the
1300 participants of the 28th Annual National ijtema Convention on the subject of beekeeping.
After my speech many interested listeners asked me how they could become beekeepers. An arrangement was made that each State will compile a list of interested members that is then sent to me. A comprehensive
training programme will be arranged.
A GB Babalola
TANZANIA have just finished facilitating a ten-day Beekeeping Workshop at Madale Youth Settlement, 30 km north of Dar es Salaam. The Settlement is home to 100 young men and women who are involved in agricultural production, mainly growing passion fruits. 1
Other activities include brick and tile
considered a menace but now they are thought of as a blessing, because the _
benefits they bring are understood.
The most important benefit the bees bring to the Settlement is pollination of the passion fruit. A wide variety of hives will be used depending on the materials available for their construction.
making. Their Beekeeping Project is a new activity and has been received with enthusiasm. Bees can be found
The Workshop was co-financed by the participants and the German Development Service.
everywhere at the camp: occupying offices, houses, and workshops. Before the training sessions bees were
Thomas Chale
Bees for Development supplied Workshop materials.
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