Zimbabwe: Mapping honey value chains adds sweetness to Africa’s potential
Honey
Zimbabwe
Published Sep 22, 2022
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Source: Mapping honey value chains adds sweetness to Africa’s potential | Herald (Opinion) Sifelani Tsiko Agriculture & Innovations Editor Beekeeping is an important activity that helps smallholder farmers to raise additional income to improve their livelihoods. Zimbabwe and most other African countries have perfect conditions for commercial bee farming.
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In this report, Sifelani Tsiko (ST), Agric, Environment & Innovations Editor speaks to Chaipa Mutandwa (CM), national programme coordinator of the Beekeepers Association of Zimbabwe on challenges facing the industry and what could be done for honey industry to flourish and access global markets where demand is high. ST: Beekeeping is now seen as a profitable conservation industry. Can you tell us more about the state of beekeeping in Zimbabwe and Africa at present? CM: Uptake of beekeeping as a business venture is slowly increasing in the country. Of course, we still have problems. The country is still witnessing a lot of adulterated honey and honey which does not conform to stipulated food standards. Production is still very low due to poor technologies used by a majority of the producers. The technologies have a low yield capacity. Apart from this, lack of support from the Government and financial institutions is preventing the industry from growing. If well supported, the ...
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