Post by Ismail AbdulAzeez on Jan 14, 2011 20:36:54 GMT 1
1.Beekeeping as an activity offers great potential for development in almost all African countries.
2.It is easy and cheap to start, it can provide valuable food/medicine for the family and honey and beeswax are important cash crops with ready local market.
3.Beekeeping requires little land and therefore is an ideal activity for small scale resourceful-poor farmers.
4.Beekeeping also enhances the environment and increases crop yields through pollination.
5. Beekeeping gives local people an economic incentive for the retention of natural habitats such as forests and therefore is an ideal activity in any forest conservation programme.
6. Without a healthy honey bee population, successful fruit and vegetable production would be at risk.
7. Not only are bees intriguing, they are essential to the human food chain. Approximately 90 agricultural crops, one-third of global food production volume, are dependent on pollination, including almonds, apples, blueberries, coffee, melons and soybeans. Without bees to pollinate these crops, the food supply will dramatically decrease unless new ways are devised to do what bees do naturally.
8. No matter what your age, space or knowledge and experience, keeping bees is both a fascinating and rewarding hobby. It may require you to regularly set aside time if you are to be successful, but observing the lives of these amazing creatures and, of course, sampling that fresh, free honey will be worth every minute you put in.
2.It is easy and cheap to start, it can provide valuable food/medicine for the family and honey and beeswax are important cash crops with ready local market.
3.Beekeeping requires little land and therefore is an ideal activity for small scale resourceful-poor farmers.
4.Beekeeping also enhances the environment and increases crop yields through pollination.
5. Beekeeping gives local people an economic incentive for the retention of natural habitats such as forests and therefore is an ideal activity in any forest conservation programme.
6. Without a healthy honey bee population, successful fruit and vegetable production would be at risk.
7. Not only are bees intriguing, they are essential to the human food chain. Approximately 90 agricultural crops, one-third of global food production volume, are dependent on pollination, including almonds, apples, blueberries, coffee, melons and soybeans. Without bees to pollinate these crops, the food supply will dramatically decrease unless new ways are devised to do what bees do naturally.
8. No matter what your age, space or knowledge and experience, keeping bees is both a fascinating and rewarding hobby. It may require you to regularly set aside time if you are to be successful, but observing the lives of these amazing creatures and, of course, sampling that fresh, free honey will be worth every minute you put in.
