Bees/or Development Journal 92
NEWS AROUND THE WORLD AZERBAIJAN
to parts of Nepal including Dang, Butwal,
Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev has Signed a decree on the application of the Law
Sindhikharka and Kathmandu. The District Agriculture Development Office provided a concession in the form of hives to the farmers. Honey production has doubled: local
on Beekeeping. According to the decree, the Cabinet of Ministers shall, within two months,
farmer Suprakash Ghimire said that he earns INR100,000 (US$2,100;€1,470) from his 20 colonies. The honey is sold at INR300
prepare proposals and submit to the Head of State to bring existing laws inline with the Law on Beekeeping. Rules will be prepared for amateur and professional beekeepers and
On average, each house in Dhanchaur has two or three hives of
(US$6.3;€4.4) per kg.
sanitary-veterinary passports issued for apiaries.
Apis cerana honey bees. Source:
Source: WWW.Wap.apa.az
www.kantipuronline.com/kolnews
BULGARIA
NEPAL
Plamen Ivanov, Chairman of the National Beekeepers’ Union said that 38,000
Honey in Nepal: approach, strategy and intervention for subsector
beekeepers are ready to mount a protest and that every Bulgarian who eats honey will support them. “Beekeepers in Bulgaria are in
beekeeping is essential for agricultural development. A major problem is retailers
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importing honey and selling it at a low price. Bulgaria has had traditions in honey
Cooperation/Private Sector Promotion-Rural Finance Nepal. BfD has some copies for distribution in Resource Boxes. The book is also available in PDF format to download from the Information Portal at
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"It is looking increasingly unlikely that eradication and containment will be possible and that we have a region wide, even
countrywide, problem," said Mike Allsopp, Head of Honey Bee Research with the
a
Agricultural Research Centre (ARC) Stellenbosch.
though the majority of bee farmers were affected, it good weather conditions prevail, we can expect a good harvest for the year.”
in
The search for the disease in all of the Western Cape and part of the Eastern Cape a is being conducted by the Department of Agriculture in partnership with the ARC and the South African Bee Industry Organisation
tonnes of honey harvested from parts of Rakiraki and Ba are ready for market. Even
a!
me,
(SABIO). Chairman of SABIO, John Moodie, said: "The decision we have to make is whether to continue with the eradication
The Ministry of Primary Industries is embarking on a rehabilitation programme from which it hopes to recover 40-50% of the
a
production affected by the January floods.
Source: Fiji Daily Post
Beekeeping is popular in Dhanchaur and Dhikura village development committees
Preliminary survey results of bee colonies point to the unabated spread of American foulbrood (AFB) throughout the Western Cape and beyond. Early results showed that over
tested.
not affected by the downpour, except for areas that were prone to flooding. Prasad said: “Ten
INDIA
SOUTH AFRICA
80% of the 45 samples tested came back positive for the disease. Officials are still waiting for more than 450 samples to be
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production has been good. National Co-ordinator for Apiculture, Kamal Prasad, said production from January-February was
source of fuel wood, animal fodder, increases soil fertility, and provides nectar for bees.
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RWANDA
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recover from Kwashiorkor - a disease caused by malnutrition. Calliandra sp is a good
Alice Malaiperuman, Overseas Co-ordinate International Tree Foundation, UK
Desislava Antova, Focus News Agency
Despite the recent spate of unfavourable weather in the country (see BfDJ 90), honey
The fruit of trees, such as Moringa sp (see Trees Bees Use next page), help children
20,000 saplings. The project is managed by The Rural Development Inter-Diocesan Service (RDIS).
promotion by Dr Surendra Raj Joshi has been
said.
produces tree seedlings on a large scale. Local community members give their labour to build the tree nurseries, transport manure, transplant, water and care for seedlings.
A network of 13 nurseries has been established across four dioceses in southern Rwanda. Each nursery produces about
a difficult situation: they do not receive subsidies for hives or colonies even though
production since 1911, but now the average age for beekeepers is 66 and young people are not willing to take on beekeeping”, Ivanov
forests, and prevent encroachment of the remaining forests. The Project has set up nurseries over several districts of Rwanda and
Lemon and other fruit tree seedlings are grown in the nurseries by the community helpers
process. Burning infected hives is considered the best way to stop the spread of AFB and we estimate that 200 colonies with AFB have been destroyed so far.”
Allsopp said that eradication is only a
(VDC). Farmers have taken up beekeeping because it requires little investment and
recent years Rwanda has experienced deforestation, leading to depleted biodiversity, erosion and landslides. The Tree Seedling
provides high returns. In total the farmers earn about INR5 million (US$105,000:€73,310)
Tree Foundation distributes a mixture of
reasonable response if the infection rate is under 60%, otherwise, the economic and environmental ramifications of destroying all those colonies are too great. The rapid spread of AFB, which was found in South Africa in
each year selling honey. Pitamber Bhusal, Chief of the VDC, says the honey is exported
forestry, fruit and agro-forestry tree seedlings to people who use them on their land, replant
February 2009 (see BfDJ 97) threatens more than just the honey-producing industry.
In
Production Project funded by International
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