COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS OF MODERN BEEKEEPING IN KENYA The modern beekeeping technology is a sure live hood of the farmers because as opposed to the traditional method, the langstroth hive has two chambers separated by queen excluder which ensures that the queen is not killed during the harvesting thus no swarming as in the case …
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WHAT IS APICULTURE? Rearing of honey bees is called Apiculture. Keeping bees at a large scale for commercial purposes as a business is increasing in this fast growing world. Apiculture is related to agriculture or is a part of agriculture. Bee keeping business need less investment of money and labourers with great care of …
How do you bait and place your hives? The African bee can swarm up to 8 times in a single year. This means your aim is to always prepare and bait those beehives to attract the swarms in to the hives. All hives need to be placed in a raised ground or in a …
What are the Benefits of Honey? Honey has many benefits to the body of either: child, teenagers and also adults. Consumption of honey is a habit that started many years ago. During the times when there was no structured beehive, there are communities who used to practice gathering. This activity used to take place in …
What is Beekeeping? Beekeeping is defined as the maintenance and raising of honey bees by a beekeeper. Bees are kept in a structure known as a beehive. A place where more than two beehives are place is called a bee apiary. A bee apiary could either be in open area covered by forest or under …
What do you require to start a beekeeping project in Kenya? Bee keeping in Kenya is done by communities living in ASAL regions. The bee farming activity is done for number of reasons in most areas of our country. Since in memorial a good number of farmers in Kenya produced honey for …
