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Moodie said that up to ZAR 2.10 billion (US$0.27 billion; €0.19 billion) worth of production in the local deciduous fruit market could be at risk following the AFB outbreak. This is a quarter of the ZAR 8.50 billion
HH MANDIZVIDZA
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ZIMBABWE Mrs Ndlovu’s family honey tasting at the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair held in Bulawayo in April 2009. Mr H H Mandizvidza (wearing blue shirt) a BfD Journal reader for over 20 years, arranged the display and tasting opportunity and estimates 1.000 people attended the event.
(US$1.10 billion; €0.77 billion) worth of the top six deciduous fruits that South Africa exported last year. The ZAR 2.10 billion
(US$0.27 billion; €0.19 billion) figure is a 2007 estimate by the ARC's Plant Protection Institute on the value added by honey bees in the pollination of local deciduous fruits, or how much it would cost to pollinate the deciduous fruit crop by hand. More than 60% of a local beekeeper's income was from the money made from hiring colonies to pollinate Crops.
Chris Faure, Chairman of the Deciduous Fruit Producers Trust, said the local industry was concerned about the outbreak of the disease. "If the
outbreak gets worse then the deciduous
fruit industry is going to be affected," he added. Plums and apricots, particularly, need
pollination. The ARC also included /alue that local bees add in pollinating berries, nuts, tropical fruit, field crops, ; for
oilseed crops, vegetables and seed production. Cherries, most deciduous fruit, nuts, onions, sunflower seeds and vegetables all relied on bees for pollination.
Source: Matthew Richmond, Cape Times, www.iol.co.za and www. busrep.co.za
TREES BEES USE
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MORINGA OLEIFERA
Samuel Adelani Babarinde, Department of Agronomy, Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso, Nigeria
Uses Oil from the seeds of Moringa oleifera is used in making perfume. The fruits and leaves are edible with high protein levels, vitamins, minerals and in West Africa and many parts of Asia. are carbohydrate.
Apicultural value Moringa oleifera is an excellent source of nectar for bees.
They consumed Seed coagulant is used in wastewater treatment. All parts are used extensively in Indian folk medicine. Exudates produce quality blue dyes, while the wood has potential as pulp for the paper industry.
Aaricultural value _
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Family
Moringaceae
Origin
Moringa oleifera is indigenous to south-east Asia and is cultivated widely throughout the tropics.
Description tree up to Moringa oleifera is a fast growing deciduous shrub or small 42 m tall and 30 cm in diameter. It has an umbrella shaped open crown. It has a softwood with corky and gummy bark. Its leaves are alternate, oddly
bi- or tri-pinnate compound, triangular 20-70 cm.
in outline, and a length of
Flowers On established Moringa oleifera stands, flowering begins in December. Its
and papilionoid with five fragrant flowers are obliquely monosymmetric stamens in axillary pendulous panicles about 2 cm long from leaf corners.
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