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For enquiries, contact us:Bays 17 & 18, Stand No. 266, Empowerment DriveWillowvale, Harare, ZimbabweTel: +263 864 411 1701 +263 772 915 544E-mail: [email protected] [email protected]

We are the offi cial distributor of Thom-as Apiculture Equip-ment in Zimbabwe and can provide any Beekeeping Equip-ment or Accessory needed in the Bee In-dustry, regardless of the size. Name it and we will supply!!!

In MALAWI and need Beekeep-ing Equipment and Supplies? We are on our way to Lilongwe and will be able to supply you with all your Beekeeping needs.

ORGANO SEVEN (PVT) LIMITED(Exclusive Distributor of

THOMAS APICULTURE equipment in Zimbabwe)

Organo Seven (Pvt) Limited is an Agro-Processing compa-

ny specialising in Honey Processing, Beekeeping Consulting

and Equipment Supplies. We are a One-Stop-Shop for all

your Beekeeping and Honey Processing requirements offer-

ing the following services: • Purchase of Raw Honey

• Marketing of Zimbabwe Honey and Bees Wax

• Supply of Beekeeping Equipment and Accessories:

o KTB Bee Hives (with Lockable lids)o Langstroth Bee Hiveso Bee Suits, Gloveso Smokers, Brushes, Hive Tools

• Supply of Honey Processing Equipment:

o Honey Extractorso Solar Wax Extractorso Wax Melting Tankso Wax Foundation Machineso Honey Settling Tankso Bee Venom Harvesting Machineso Pollen Harvesting and Drying Machines

• Beekeeping Training and Consulting


CONTENTS

3 ApiExpo Africa 2014 comes to Zimbabwe, Africa Celebrates

6 Technical Tours - ApiExpo Africa 2014

10 BEE talk

14 Exhibitors’ Catalog - ApiExpo Africa 2014

12 Focus on beekeeping in Zimbabwe

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REGULARS:

9 Honey trading companies & cooperatives in Africa8 National Apex

Apiculture OrganisationsWWW.ORGANOSEVEN.COM

For enquiries, contact us:Bays 17 & 18, Stand No. 266, Empowerment DriveWillowvale, Harare, ZimbabweTel: +263 864 411 1701 +263 772 915 544E-mail: [email protected] [email protected]

We are the offi cial distributor of Thom-as Apiculture Equip-ment in Zimbabwe and can provide any Beekeeping Equip-ment or Accessory needed in the Bee In-dustry, regardless of the size. Name it and we will supply!!!

In MALAWI and need Beekeep-ing Equipment and Supplies? We are on our way to Lilongwe and will be able to supply you with all your Beekeeping needs.

ORGANO SEVEN (PVT) LIMITED(Exclusive Distributor of

THOMAS APICULTURE equipment in Zimbabwe)

Organo Seven (Pvt) Limited is an Agro-Processing compa-

ny specialising in Honey Processing, Beekeeping Consulting

and Equipment Supplies. We are a One-Stop-Shop for all

your Beekeeping and Honey Processing requirements offer-

ing the following services: • Purchase of Raw Honey

• Marketing of Zimbabwe Honey and Bees Wax

• Supply of Beekeeping Equipment and Accessories:

o KTB Bee Hives (with Lockable lids)o Langstroth Bee Hiveso Bee Suits, Gloveso Smokers, Brushes, Hive Tools

• Supply of Honey Processing Equipment:

o Honey Extractorso Solar Wax Extractorso Wax Melting Tankso Wax Foundation Machineso Honey Settling Tankso Bee Venom Harvesting Machineso Pollen Harvesting and Drying Machines

• Beekeeping Training and Consulting


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FOREWORD

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EDITORBosco Okello

TEAM LEADER Robert Grace Kisenyi

CONTENT, DESIGN & LAYOUTRobert Grace Kisenyi

WRITERS Bosco Okello, Smith Nyatsande,

Andrew Chitesa, Innocent Shayamano, Robert Grace Kisenyi,

Harun N. Baiya

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PUBLISHERApiTrade Africa Co. Ltd

On Monday 6th October 2014, Zimbabweans will wake up to give their usu-al warm reception to both domestic and foreign dele-gates and exhibitors as the country hosts the largest pan-African honey exhibi-tion in Harare. ApiExpo Af-rica 2014 is proudly hosted by Zimbabwe, following the successful first three edi-tions held in Uganda (2008), Zambia (2010) and Ethiopia (2012) respectively.

ApiExpo Africa 2014 is a great milestone in our en-deavor to open up the hon-eybee industry in Africa – showcasing African value added bee products, home-grown production technol-ogies and skills, plus how the industry positively influ-ences other industries. The Expo also serves as the only dedicated African-based platform for lobbying and advocacy on issues that af-fect beekeeping and honey trade in Africa.

We have made some chang-es to the way we normally conduct the events. First, we decided to make it a week-long festival, involving a series of coordinated activ-ities, so as to avoid the ‘rush’ we previously experienced when the event was a 3-days one. Secondly, we have im-proved on our interaction

with the media across Africa and dedicated some special sessions to them. That way, we would make the media understand the issues in the industry and be an effective vehicle to propagate posi-tive messages to the society and the wider market, within and beyond Africa. Thirdly, we have planned a special Business-to-Business (B2B) session to enable stakehold-ers deal with business and trade issues. We hope that these changes will make the event more business-orient-ed, fulfilling the need of the participants.

In this Expo Edition of The African Honey Magazine, we bring you the latest informa-tion about Africa’s honeybee industry, highlighting some of the private sector initia-tives as well as those of our partners. We bring to you the largest honey processors and packers from the African continent and share stories which are found ‘only in Af-rica’.

We wish you a fruitful time during and after the Expo. Stay connected with Zim-babwe; stay connected with ApiTrade Africa!

Pleasant reading

BOSCO OKELLOEDITOR


APIEXPO AFRICA 2014 COMES TO ZIMBABWE, AFRICA CELEBRATES

This week we celebrate two great events in two great African cit-

ies, Harare and Kampala. Harare, the capital city of the Republic of Zimbabwe, is hosting the 4th edition of ApiExpo Africa, a pan Afri-can honeybee industry pro-motional event which was launched in 2008 to raise the profile of the industry across the continent. The event runs from Monday 6th to Saturday 11th October 2014. On the other hand, Kampala, the capital city of the Republic of Uganda, is celebrating 52 years of political indepen-dence on 9th October. Kam-pala is significant to ApiTrade Africa because it hosted the inaugural edition of ApiExpo Africa, back in 2008.

ApiTrade Africa is aware that beekeeping can play a sig-nificant role in contributing to food production through increased pollination of food crops and cash crops and production of bee products for the market. Beekeeping can also foster sustainable environmental management practices such as planting of bee-loving trees (bee forage) and providing alternative secondary livelihood sources to the small-holders across

Africa. All these efforts are geared towards economical-ly empowering small-holder beekeepers in Africa.

We thank the Government of Zimbabwe, through the Min-istry of Agriculture, for ac-cepting to co-host ApiExpo Africa 2014 with us on their land. The Expo provides us with an excellent platform, as stakeholders, to reflect, share knowledge and skills, gain access to markets in and outside Africa, but also make our voices heard. Zimbabwe has particularly provided new dimensions to us, enabling us to reach many more bee-keepers and private sector actors in the Southern Africa Development Cooperation (SADC) region. It is the first time we have seen big teams of beekeepers from Botswa-na, Swaziland and South Africa participate in ApiExpo Africa. This is the level of pri-vate sector engagement we expect from different parts of the continent.

The theme of this year’s event was selected after consideration of the fact that beekeeping now plays a significant role in the en-hancements of the liveli-hoods of hundreds of thou-

sands of smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa. The Zimbabwe Agenda for Sus-tainable Socio-Economic Transformation’s (ZIMAS-SET) Value Addition and Beneficiation Cluster also acknowledges the role of apiculture in contributing to poverty reduction, enhanced economic growth and en-trench economic stability through agro-processing.

An event like this cannot be taken as an end in itself, but rather a stage in the evolu-tion of an industry. There will be more work to do in this country after the Expo. We realized such immense op-portunity at different levels while we worked with the Or-ganising Committee over the last two years. Some work still needs to be done in the areas of capacity building for beekeepers and strengthen-ing the policy and regulatory frameworks which support production and marketing bee products.

ApiTrade appreciates the role of the private sector in promoting entrepreneurship and growth in the industry. We therefore appeal to gov-ernments and development agencies to put a greater


Presidential Handshake:H.E. YK Museveni, of the Republic of Uganda and the Board chairman of ApiTrade Africa shake hands during the premier ApiExpo Africa 2008 in Kampala - Uganda

PanAfrican call:The first Zambian Republican President, Dr. Kenneth Kaunda having some quality time with Tanzanians at ApiExpo Africa 2010 in Lusaka - Zambia

Victory Shot: A delegation from Zimba-bwe in a group shot with their Ethiopian Ambas-sodor immediately after being declared next hosts - for ApiExpo Africa 2014 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia


focus to cooperate with the emerging enterprises which are showing promise of lift-ing the standards of quality, production, processing and marketing of bee products. In the coming years, Api-Trade will specifically focus resources to building first class enterprises among its members. We should fur-ther work to strengthen the existing private sector bee-keepers’ and honey traders’ structures at different levels so that they can mobilize resources to promote bee-keeping and honey trade ac-tivities. These structures are routinely involved in informa-tion dissemination, training of farmers and advocacy work by protecting and promoting their interest in the sector. That way, therefore, they are promoting the overall vision of the industry.

A visit to the stands in this year’s exhibitions demon-strates that Africa can rival the best in the world. We have a great range of prod-ucts. I encourage each par-ticipant to visit the stands at Harare International Confer-ence Centre (HICC), meet and interact with the business women and men, young and old, as you learn new things and build business linkages.Listening to the numerous technical and country’s sit-uation papers presented at

this event makes one won-der what we are doing with all these knowledge! There is need for more research in scientific areas that relate to bee health, beekeeping tech-nologies, bee forage, honey quality profiling, among oth-ers. In the near future, we hope to hold symposia to fo-cus on only these issues and engage with researchers, scientists and experts at a very high level. This will help improve the body of knowl-edge in all spheres of the industry and provide a basis for new innovations and a new level of entrepreneur-ship. This is what we need as a continent.

We believe that the next two editions of ApiExpo Africa will bring out the best out of our motherland Africa. We encourage beekeepers’ as-sociations and their support structures to host the Expo to stimulate the growth of the in-dustry in their countries. We have witnessed the phenom-enal developments in previ-ous host countries, namely Uganda and Ethiopia. When Uganda hosted the Expo in 2008, stakeholders woke up and resolved to hold their own annual version of the same, called National Hon-ey Week. Since 2009, this event has been successfully promoted by the national um-brella beekeepers’ organisa-

tion, TUNADO. Ethiopia has also launched the same kind of industry event, called Api-Ethiopia Expo, this year after a successful ApiExpo Afri-ca in 2012. Lessons drawn from hosting ApiExpo Afri-ca is such a great resource therefore to help stakehold-ers promote their businesses in their respective countries.

At a global level, ApiTrade Africa collaborates with Api-mondia, the global body that represents beekeepers’ as-sociations, to promote the interest of beekeeping in Africa. We are working with Apimondia to strengthen the knowledge on beekeep-ing in Africa. This initiative is being coordinated by the office of the Commissioner for Africa at Apimondia, Mr. Mulufird Ashagrie. The aim of this partnership is to en-sure a smooth system of co-ordination on programs that promote knowledge on bee-keeping in Africa.

We wish you a pleasant stay in Zimbabwe and we look forward to working together.

By,Harun N. BaiyaBoard Chairman,

Technical ToursEnhance your expe-

rience at ApiExpo

Africa 2014 as we

follow the African honey-

bee trail through Zimbabwe.

Add Technical Tours to your

recipe! Register now!

This one day excursion will involve visiting areas of beekeeping activity and places of scenic

attraction. The total cost of this excursion will be $40 USD for non - Zimbabwe nationals

and $25 USD for Zimbabwe nationals and it includes lunch, transport and service fees.

TOURIST SITE (S) SCENIC ATTRACTIONSDomboshawa Rocks The day trip excursion includes viewing

of beekeeping apiaries (urban beekeep-ing and conservation), sculptures of high profile artists in the gallery, caves and tunnel, geology, bird park viewing, rock art viewing by the bushmen.

Harare Botanical Gardens

Epworth Balancing Rocks

Mukuvisi Game Park (Woodlands)

National Art Gallery

Tours in and around Harare: 1 day Tour - 11th October 2014


ORGANO SEVEN (PVT) LIMITED &

THOMAS APICULTURE

Place your order today for the equipments below from Organo Seven

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Wax Melting Tanks Wax Foundation Machines Honey TanksUncapping Tanks Uncapping Knives Uncapping MachinesRadial Extractors Tangential Extractors Tropical ExtractorsPrinox Extractors Extraction Plant RefractometersSpinning Machines Solar Extractors Settling TanksHoney Pumps Honey mixers Heating ChambersCapping Crushers Beehive Accessories SmokersBee Brushes Bee Suits Leather Gloves Queen Breeding Royal Jelly Harvesters Bee Venom CollectorPropolis Harvester Pollen Harvester Pollen Driers

Organo Seven (Pvt) Limited is proud to be the leading Apiculture Sector player in Zimbabwe,

bringing a wide range of services to the Beekeeping industry, not only in Zimbabwe but the Southern African Re-

gion. Having established itself as a One-stop-shop for Beekeeping services ranging from Bee Hives; Protective Clothing; Beekeeping equip-

ment and Accessories; Beekeeping consulting services; Purchase , Processing and Marketing of Honey, the company has gone a step further.

Organo Seven and Thomas Apiculture has joined hands to provide a wide range of Honey Processing equipment and Beekeeping Accessories to the Zimbabwean and Southern African market.

Thomas Apiculture is a French Beekeeping and Honey Processing Equipment Manufacturer with more than 100 years of experience, having been established in 1905. Since then, Thomas Apiculture has become the highest exporter of high quality Honey Processing equipment in Eu-rope. To date, Thomas Apiculture has exported equipment to several countries in Europe, Asia, South America and Africa with more than 300 wholesalers worldwide.

Organo Seven has entered into an agreement with Thomas Apiculture to be the Exclusive Dis-tributor of Thomas Apiculture Equipment in Zimbabwe.

This entails that Organo Seven (Pvt) Limited will be the agent and will be responsible for the Sales and Marketing of Thomas Apiculture Equipment as well as After Sale Services required by the customers.

Company Country Major Products/Services

Contacts

Beza Mar Agro Industries Plc Ethiopia Honey,Bees wax

P.O. Box 102, Addis Ababa - Ethiopia; Tel: 251-115-505099 / 251 221 125893;Fax: +251-115-515352Email: [email protected]

Rahi Honey Processing Enterprise

Ethiopia Honey,Bees wax

P.O. Box 371, Addis Ababa - Ethiopia;Tel: +261-115-507204; Mob: +251-911-223559; Email: [email protected]

Apinec Agro Industry Plc Ethiopia Honey,Bees wax

P.O. Box 27535, Addis Ababa - Ethiopia; Mob: 251-911-407360, Email: [email protected]

Bee Natural Uganda Ltd Uganda Honey,Bees wax,Propolis

Pan Africa House, Plot 3 Kimathi Avenue Kampala; Tel: 256 414 234676; Mob: 256772209000 (Mob); Email: [email protected]; Web: www.beenaturalproducts.com

Sulma Foods Ltd Uganda Honey,Bees wax

Bulema Lwogi, 10km, Kasana-Kikyusa road; P.O. Box 102, Luw-ero-Uganda; Tel : +256 312 110949; Email: [email protected] / [email protected]; Web: www. sulmafoods.co.ug

Golden Bees Ltd Uganda Honey,Bees wax,Propolis

P.O Box 7264 Kampala Tel: +256 752 484225 / 256 702 484225E-mail: [email protected]

Tharaka Honeybee Products Ltd

Kenya Honey,Bees wax

P.O. Box 6910-00300 Nairobi-Kenya; Tel: +254 202 535594; Mob: +254 722 253487; Fax: +254 20 8081301; Email: [email protected]; Web: www. tharakahoney.com

African Beekeepers Ltd Kenya Honey,Bees wax

P.O.BOX 3752-00506 Nairobi-Kenya; Tel: +254-20-2060685,Fax:: +245-020-8014090; E-mail: [email protected];Web: www.africanbeekeepers.co.ke

Honey Care Kenya Kenya Honey,Bees wax

Muring Avenue, Nairobi, Kenya; Tel/Fax: +254 20 3874448/50E-mail: [email protected]; Web: www.honeycareafrica.com

Forest Fruits Ltd Zambia Honey,Bees wax

Tel: +260 966 75765123 / +260 211 290406Email: [email protected]; web: www.zambezigold.com

Mpongwe Beekeeping Enterprise

Zambia Honey,Bees wax

P.O. Box 1, Mpongwe-Zambia; Tel/Fax: +260211 482057; Mob: +260968 507671; Email: [email protected]

Lualua Beekeeping Zambia Honey,Bees wax

P.O Box 410387, Kasama-Zambia. Tel: +260977 580589;Email: [email protected]

Ndalambwe Bee Farmers Ltd Tanzania Honey,Bees wax

P.O 24 Sajaranda Itigi; +255713177372/713464623Email: [email protected]

Honey Care Africa (T) Ltd Tanzania Honey,Bees wax

Tel: +255222862544, Fax: +255222864184E-mail: [email protected], Web: www.honeycare.co.tz

Jampem Enterprises Ltd Tanzania Honey,Bees wax,

P.O. Box 1608, Tabora-Tanzania; Tel: +255713 276561;Email: [email protected]

MIG Ltd Rwanda Honey,Bees wax

Email: [email protected]

Centre De Services Aux Apicul-ture

Rwanda Honey,Bees wax

P.O.Box 1295 Kigali; Tel & Fax 573961, 575460Email: [email protected]

Bambui Organic Farmers CIG (BOFCIG)

Cameroon Honey,Bees wax

4 Corners Bambui, P.O.Box 56, Bamenda; Tel: 784 5408, 7456168; Email: [email protected]

APAS / Tropical Forest Honey Cameroon Honey,Bees wax

Email: [email protected], [email protected]

Apiculture and Nature Conser-vation Organization (ANCO)

Cameroon Honey,Bees wax

P.O.Box 5150, Banenda-Cameroon; Tel: 23777 715651;Email:[email protected]

A & Shine International Ltd Nigeria Honey,Bees wax

Plot 22, Aa1 Layout, Kango Road, Kuje-Abuja, NIGERIATel: +234 8036 879 116, Email: [email protected]: www.ashineltd.com

JW’s Beekeeping Equipment & Supplies

South Africa Honey, Beeswax

Box: 236 Swellendam South Africa 6740, Tel: + 27 825142402Email: [email protected], Website: www.jwbees.com

KwaZulu Natal Bee Farmers Association

South Africa Honey, Bees wax

Box: 524,Pietermaritzburg, South Africa 3200, Tel: +27 84 7748692, Email: [email protected]

Western Cape Bee Industry As-sociation

South Africa Honey, Bees wax

Box: 27, Elsenburg, South Africa, 7607, Tel: +27 21 884421Email: [email protected]

HONEY TRADING COMPANIES & COOPERATIVES IN AFRICA


Company Country Major Products/Services

Contacts

Savanah Delights Zimbabwe Honey, Bees wax

Tel. +263-775-625266Email. [email protected]

Organo Seven Zimbabwe Honey,Bees wax

Stand No. 17047, Cartron Rd,Graniteside, Tel: +263-04-2933457/8Mob: +263-773-399389, Email: [email protected]

Inmate Trading Zimbabwe Honey,Bees wax

7 Windermere Drive, Strathaven HarareTel: +263-4-332753, Mob +263-772 554 851, Fax:+263-4- 332753Email: [email protected] / [email protected]

Atlas Foods Ghana Limited Ghana Honey, Bees wax

Tel: +233543 895858; E-mail: [email protected],Web: www.atlasfoodsghanalimited.com

Gate’s Honey Uganda Honey,Bees wax

Plot 1, Nakajja close Naguru. P.O. Box 24854, Kampala-Uganda,Tel: +256414 286649 / +256712286649Email: [email protected]

JJLLIMA Holdings Ltd Uganda Honey,Bees wax

Lower Palabek Road, Pager Parish, Kitgum Town CouncilP. O. Box 66, Kitgum Uganda, Tel: +256414 286649 / +256712286649, Email: [email protected]

Woodlands Honey Products Ltd

Kenya Honey,Bees wax,Propolis

P.O.Box 16029-00100, G.P.O. Nairobi;Tel: 254 020 551729/254 721 408924

Apex Body Country ContactsReseau Interprofessionnell des Apicul-

teurs du Cameroun (REINAC)Cameroon Phone: + 237 75335499

Email: [email protected]

Ethiopian Apiculture Board (EAB) Ethiopia Phone: +251 911 879 963Email: [email protected]

Association des Apiculteurs de Côte d’Ivoire

Ivory Coast Phone: +225 01 081 699 / +225 03 200 315Email: [email protected]

Kenya Honey Council (KHC) Kenya Phone: +254 722 521 873Email: [email protected]

Féderation Nationale des Apiculteurs Malagasy (FENAM)

Madagascar Phone: +261 343877445Email: [email protected]

Fédération Rwandaise des Coopératives Apicoles (FRCA)

Rwanda Phone: +250 788 523 126Email: [email protected]

South African Bee Industry Organisation (SABIO)

South Africa Phone: +27 21870 2900Email: [email protected]

Tanzania Honey Council (THC) Tanzania Phone: +255 754 026 652Email: [email protected]

The Uganda National Apiculture Development Organisation (TUNADO)

Uganda Phone: +256 414 258 070Email: [email protected]

Zambia Honey Council (ZHC) Zambia Phone: +260 212 222 607Email: [email protected]

Beekeepers Association of Zimbabwe (BKAZ)

Zimbabwe Phone: +263 772 860 102Email: [email protected]

National Apex Apiculture Organisations


By Robert Grace Kisenyi | [email protected]

BEE TALK


It will be all buzzing at Harare International Conference Center – The Rainbow Towers Hotel, from 6th – 11th October 2014. Africa’s all weather bee-allies will be gathering under one roof.

Bees have been here for us since plant and animal life came to be. Today more than ever due to in-

creasing threats to their existence, it’s our turn to do more to keep them alive and pollinating. Hence the inspiration for this bee talk!

BEE TOGETHER

A single bee is nothing but together, they are this community that produces health and sustenance for us all. This is a key lesson for all bee friends in Africa and beyond. ApiExpo Africa is such a useful platform whose value is immeasurable

BEE MILEAGE

Honeybees might live by you but they travel miles away to get the nectar. We can thus rightly say that every bee-keeper extends his / her hands to help

strangers. Interesting!

BEE URBAN

Increasingly today, there is a thin line between urban life and rural life. For a long time in Africa, bees have been associated with rural living. Bees have been looked at as wild life. Howev-er, with clearance of the wild for set-tlement, keeping bees is a smart op-tion even in urbanizing places. Time is now, for everyone who cares about what they eat; how food gets to their table to care about bees. Not because of their honey, but because a vast number of crops that are grown need pollinators.

BEE ALTERNATIVES

It’s bitter to ever imagine life without honeybees, simply because these man’s best little friends are responsi-


ble for so much sweetness. Without them our food chain would surely col-lapse and humans would suffer most – we would starve.

A few pollinator alternatives are in line though among which humans take number one position. However, this would involve so much labor and there would be a spike in food costs.

Genetically Modified Crops (GMCs) is the other alternative with assumption that these genetically altered crops can help to circumvent the pollination process. However, this wouldn’t be sustainable due to inability of GMCs to produce viable seeds that can be re-planted. It would also create a de-pendence syndrome to seed and chemical companies who would be the biggest beneficiaries.

The other alternative would be use of robots to do the pollination of crops. These would be programmed to do the this work. This too would be unimagin-ably expensive and unsustainable.

BEE HEALTHY

The credible health benefits of honey lies in its nutritive value; bits of pollen, royal jelly, propolis, enzymes and ben-eficial bacteria. And the more raw the honey is the better. Therefore incor-

porating honey into our diet and medi-cine cabinet is a smart choice.

BEE VALUE

Bees are valued for more than honey. They help to increase the yield of any crop. However, apart from crop yield increment, farmers as well collect honey and other bee products from the hives.

BEE SMOKER

This tricks the bees into thinking there is a fire which then puts the bees into survival mode – trying to collect as much honey as they can before the fire gets too close and they have to flee.


FOCUS ON BEEKEEPING IN ZIMBABWE

Overview

Over the past 10 years, Zimbabwe has real-ised a substantial increase in the number of beekeepers and number of hives. This has

been attributed to an increase in the interventions pro-moted by the Zimbabwean government in partnership with development partners and NGO’s. This has seen the Zimbabwean Economic blueprint acknowledging the potential of this sector in economic development.

A target is set to annually produce 500 000 Litres of honey. This target is expected to meet the domes-tic demand and the surplus will be exported to the regional and international markets. The beekeeping systems prevalent in Zimbabwe include the traditional hives, and modern hives such as the Kenyan top bar hives and the Langstroth. More yields are obtained from the modern hives though in terms of production the traditional hives are contributing more because they are the widely used hives around the country.

Beekeeping has contributed in the protection of nat-ural resources as small holder farmers become more sensitive to the resources as they provide them with improved incomes and an improved livelihood.

The institutional framework is already available with five key Ministries expected to take a lead role in mo-bilising, training and creating awareness on the op-portunities which can be attained from beekeeping. These Ministries have various roles with the Ministry of Industry and Commerce coordinating the proces-sors. Ministry of Agriculture, Mechanisation and Irri-gation development provides the technical expertise in training the beekeepers and also regulating the sector through administering the Bees Act.

The ApiExpo Africa 2014 provides an opportunity for the small holder beekeepers to link up with local and regional markets, and to learn new beekeeping tech-niques.

Apiculture in Zimbabwe dates back to as early as the 18th Century. Evidence of beekeeping is shown by rock paintings in the Matopo hills (Crane, 1990). Zim-babwean communities used to gather honey in the wilderness. Honey was found in the caves, hollows (trees & ground) and cliffs. The local people would light up fires, use toxic smoke from poisonous trees and rubber in harvesting honey. This method of har-vesting honey proved to be unsustainable as colo-nies and habitats were destroyed. As communities later began to realise the importance of beekeeping they devised new methods to attract and domesticate bees through modifying the African drum, clay pot, bark hives, making holes in tree logs and buckets.

These methods later proved to be ineffective as it was not easy to inspect the colonies, once the combs were removed those with brood could not be returned back into the hive and it was difficult to prevent swarming or to replace the queen. This resulted in low productivity and poor quality honey. The making of bark hives re-sulted in the destruction of trees. Modern methods of beekeeping were later introduced in the early 1960’s and these proved to be very productive and sustain-able.

The government promoted the use of the Greek bas-ket-hive from1962.The adoption rate was high as a

A target is set to annually produce 500 000 Litres of honey. This target is expect-ed to meet the domestic de-mand and the surplus will be exported to the regional and international markets.

History of Beekeeping

Excerpt from Zimbabwe Country position paper prepared by Smith Nyatsande, Andrew Chitesa and Innocent Shayamano


thousand white farmers took up the enterprise. At that time, honey production rose from nil to 650 tonnes per annum (Papadopoulo, 1974). The hive is from Greece and is called the “Anastomo” Greek basket-hive. This type of hive is easy to inspect and one can crop the “ripe” honey leaving a fair share for the bees. This method ensured a more sustainable beekeeping system as bee colonies were preserved. In the later years more improved bee hives were introduced by the government. These included the Kenyan Top Bar and the Langstroth hives. Since then, Zimbabwe has witnessed a steady adoption of the modern bee hives. Most of the beekeepers are still using the traditional bee hives.

The current situation in Zimbabwe is that beekeepers use three major types of hives namely the Traditional, Kenya Top Bar and Langstroth hives. The total num-ber of hives in the country is 85 794.

All the eight provinces of Zimbabwe; Manicaland, Mashonaland East, Mashonaland Central, Masvingo, Matebeleland North, Matebeleland South, Mashona-land West and Midlands use all these hive technology.However, of all the hives found in Zimbabwe, tradi-tional hives account for 80%.

In Zimbabwe, the annual estimated production is ap-proximately 427 105kgs. By July 2014, Mashonaland West province had produced 35 480kgs of honey. During the same period Matabeleland south produced 595kg of honey. Most of the honey is sold in combs thus the wax is not rendered as in Midlands, Mas-vingo, Matabeleland North and Matabeleland south provinces. The production level is low and this may be due to low hive occupancy, poor hive management such as irregular cropping because of lack of mar-kets. This can be improved with increased awareness and training.

Honey bee populations have declined dramatically worldwide in the past ten years due to a number of factors including human intervention. The bee bank in Zimbabwe has gone down drastically and this has a negative impact on hive occupation. The hive occu-

Current Technology Status

Honey and wax production Beekeeping interventions

pancy is estimated at 40%, with a hive population of 85 794, the estimated production is 427 105kg per an-num.The average import for the past four years is19 528kg. The national demand is about 446 633kg.

The country’s current economic blueprint, ZIMASSET, sets a target of 500 000 litres of honey to be achieved by 2018. This is an achievable target if farmers are trained in beekeeping and hive management. Access to capital and markets are some of the aspects which can lead the farmers to achieve the set target.

Economic marginalization, the frequent failure of past development interventions, and the need of local communities in rural Africa to secure economic sur-vival have focused on self- reliance strategies such as beekeeping (Illinger, et al, 1998). Beekeeping in-terventions are valuable particularly to small scale farmers (Bradbear, 2009).

One major intervention in beekeeping targeting small-holder farmers was done by Zimbabwe Farmers Development Trust (ZFDT). ZFDT was a non-gov-ernmental organisation whose thrust was on devel-opment of projects focusing on improved agricultural production, employment creation, income generation and reduction of rural poverty through beekeeping. ZFDT was formed in 1992 to anchor sustainable liveli-hoods development through encouraging and helping farmers to diversify their agricultural activities such as

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EXHIBITOR COUNTRY CONTACT

Bee Natural Uganda Ltd Uganda Email: [email protected] Tel: +256774 131 117

Beekeepers’ Association of Zimbabwe (BKAZ)

Zimbawe Email: [email protected] Tel: +263772 860 102

Beekeepers’ Association of Zimbabwe Trust

Zimbabwe Email: [email protected]: +263772 973 213

Beekeeping Support Project in Kigo-ma Region

Tanzania Email: [email protected]: +255783 837 090

Bindura University Of Science Educa-tion


Connoisseur Honey Cooperative Uganda Email: [email protected] Tel: +256772 627 874

Eastern Cape Development Corpora-tion (ECDC)

South Africa Email: [email protected] Tel: +2743 704 5600

Environment Africa Zimbabwe Email: [email protected] Tel: +263772 943 553

Ethiopian Apiculture Board Ethiopia Email: [email protected]: +251911 879 963

Forestry Commission Zimbabwe Email: [email protected]: +263772 749 082

Golden Bees Ltd Uganda Email: [email protected] Tel: +256752 484 225

Manicaland Province Zimbabwe Email: [email protected]: +263772 846 887

Mashonaland Beekeepers Association Zimbawe Email: [email protected] Tel: +263712 611 253

Mashonaland Central Province Zimbabwe Email: [email protected]: +263773 879 130

Mashonaland East Province Zimbabwe Email: [email protected]: +263773 916 630

Mashonaland West Province Zimbabwe Email: [email protected]: +263772 668 138

Masvingo Province Zimbabwe Email: [email protected]: +263773 508 029

Matebeleland North Province Zimbabwe Email: [email protected]: +263772 360 144

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EXHIBITOR COUNTRY CONTACT

Matebeleland South Province Zimbabwe Email: [email protected]: +263772 113 119

Midlands Province Zimbabwe Email: [email protected]: +263773 953 980

Miel’Or Ltd Mauritius Email: [email protected] Tel: +230 5783 53 03

Ministry of Women Affairs, Gender & Community Development


Ministry of Industry & commerce Zimbabwe Email: [email protected] Tel: +263712 884 314

Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education

Zimbabwe Email: [email protected]

Ministry of Small and Medium Enter-prises

Zimbabwe Email: [email protected]

Ningbo Jinteng Bee Co. Ltd China Email: [email protected]: 0086-574-62196828

Organo Seven Pvt Ltd Zimbabwe Email: [email protected] Tel: +263773 399 389

Pechgate Distributors Pvt Ltd Zimbabwe Email: [email protected] Tel: +263775 625 266

Rwanda Agricultural Board Rwanda Email: [email protected] Tel: +250788 462 874

SAF NATURA SRL Italy Email: [email protected]: +39 445 576150

SNT Thomas Apiculture France Email: [email protected] Tel: 00336 87 069 266

Sweet Maungwe Pvt Ltd Zimbabwe Email: [email protected] Tel: +263772 973 986

Tanzania Honey Producers Tanzania Email: [email protected] Tel: +41 22 730 0323

The Bee House Products Ltd Uganda Email: [email protected] Tel: +256701 860 695

ZIMBABWE

The initiatives have creat-ed employment, raised the standard of living of farm-ers and ensured food and nutrition security amongst the small holder farmers

beekeeping to create new income sources and pro-tecting the natural resources. Beekeeping was seen as a means through which small scale farmers in the marginal areas such as Buhera and Hurungwe could enhance their incomes. The organization successful-ly operated in Mutoko, Nyanga, Mutare, Hurungwe, Makonde, Buhera and Mutasa Districts, creating jobs and generating income for rural people. ZFDT trained a total of 1 079 farmers who subsequently produced 31 568kgs of honey (ZFDT, 2001). Smallholder farm-ers responded overwhelmingly to the honey produc-tion initiative. However the production of the honey declined due to uncompetitive prices offered to farm-ers as well as inability to penetrate foreign markets.

In recent years more interventions in the beekeep-ing sector have been instituted by International La-bour Organisation( ILO), Environment Africa, Carbon Green Africa, World Wide Fund (WWF), Sustainable Agriculture Trust (SAT), Reduced Emissions from De-forestation and Forest Degradation (REDD), South-ern Alliance For Indigenous Resources (SAFIRE) and International Rescue Committee (IRC). The Forestry Commission has also come handy in the promotion of beekeeping by training beekeepers as a strategy for enhancing the conservation of trees and forests. The initiatives have created employment, raised the standard of living of farmers and ensured food and nutrition security amongst the small holder farmers.

The Ministry of Agriculture, Mechanisation and Irriga-tion Development has made significant strides in pro-moting training in beekeeping through the establish-ment of an Apiculture Section. The first Apiculturist in Zimbabwe was Mrs Papadopoulo who was appointed on 11th of July, 1962 (Papadopoulo, 1974). During her initial stint in the bee sector, she trained one thou-sand white farmers, who produced 650t/yr (Papado-poulo, 1974). The Apiculture Section’s responsibilities include the provision of beekeeping training to the ex-

tension staff. The Ministry trained 395 extension staff from 1989 to 2006. The extension staff, then in turn, trained farmers. Mr Mike Schmolke played an import-ant role in beekeeping as he was one of the pioneers of beekeeping extension particularly in the rural areas (Nyatsande, 2014. personal communication).This approach has helped the adoption process of modern methods in beekeeping. There was a signifi-cant increase in honey production.

The Ministry of Women’s Affairs, Gender and Com-munity Development recently enlisted the services of the Forestry Commission in training programmes which resulted in 225 groups and 9713 people trained in beekeeping in 2014. The Ministry of Small and Medium Enterprises equipped communities with en-trepreneurial skills to enable the beneficiaries to run beekeeping projects along business lines.

Equipment suppliers in Zimbabwe are few and some-times they do not stock important basic equipment necessary for beekeeping. The main suppliers are John Rau (Pvt) Ltd, Organo Seven and ZimApiculture Trust. ZimApiculture Trust supplied 500 Kenya Top Bar hives to 207 households in Guruve in 2013 under the Australian Direct Aid Program and 430 hives to 152 households in 2014.

The Department of Livestock Veterinary Services is responsible for administering for Bees Act. The Act empowers the Division of Veterinary Services (DVS) to deploy inspectors for the surveillance and monitor-ing for the bee health and diseases as well as for the prevention of entry, establishment and spread of ex-otic diseases and pests through movement of bees and honey and related materials and equipment by way of trade. The Division of Livestock Production and Development has the mandate and will be main-streaming apiculture in its extension services towards improved production and quality assurance services.

On the issue of diseases the Veterinary department under the Ministry of Agriculture, Mechanization and Irrigation Development is responsible for administer-ing the Bees Act Chapter 19:02. The Act empowers the Department to have inspectors for the bee diseas-es and to control the movement of bees and honey within the country and across the borders.


Events in the apiculture sector across the globeEvent Date Country Contacts

ApiExpo Africa 2014 6th - 11th

October 2014Harare Interna-tional Conference Center (HICC), The Rainbow Towers HotelZimbabwe

T: +256414 667845 (Uganda) +263775 631 980 (Zimbabwe)E: [email protected] / [email protected]: www.apitradeafrica.org

1st Apimondia Symposium on African bees and beekeeping

11th-16th November 2014

Arusha Interna-tional Conference

CentreTanzania

T: +255754 651868 E: [email protected]: www.mnrt.go.tz

83rd National Honey Show

30th Oct - 1st Nov 2014 Weybridge, UK W: www.honeyshow.co.uk

44th APIMONDIACongress

15th - 20th

September 2015Daejeon, Korea W: www.apimondia.com

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