Post by Ismail AbdulAzeez on Apr 11, 2021 18:35:24 GMT 1
Practical Steps To Successful Beekeeping And Export Of Honey In Nigeria
In this article, we are starting a very interesting and lucrative agricultural business that may seem new to so many people.
A lot of people I have met love honey, and they have been wondering how to get into the business of producing honey for both local consumption and export.
To be frank, from our childhood experience; especially those of us from the villages, bees do sting terribly when they meet you in the bush. They attack people in colonies when you accidentally bump into them.
And now we are telling you that the business of beekeeping can be the game changer in your life. How is this going to be possible? Follow us into the beautiful world of beekeeping.
Beekeeping or apiculture is the process of raising and nurturing bees in order to harvest honey or any other products like: propolis, beewax, pollen propolis, and royal jelly from them.
From what we have listed, you can see that there are many other by-products we can get from keeping bees apart from honey.
We will go through them one by one later to understand what they are and how to harvest them.
This business is one of the most promising business ventures anybody can go into and come out highly successful if done properly and marketed well.
Where is the best place to site your bee farm?
Bees are special type of insects closely related to wasps and ants. They are popular for their role in pollination and, in the case of best known species, the western honey bee; for producing honey.
Bees are responsible for producing natural honey that we all love to eat. There are honeys that are not produced by bees. We will get to that later.
It is very important to place the hive in a fruit farm as this will boost pollination. Bees are known agents of pollination; this action will multiply your harvest greatly.
The honey-bees start making honey which they also eat as their food. They make the honey by visiting flowers in the farm around them. They will collect the sugary juice of the flowers called nectar from the blossom by sucking it out with their tongues.
They will then store it in their honey stomach, which is quite different from their food stomach. When they have a full load, they fly back to the hive and offload into their hives.
Honey bees collect nectar and convert it to honey, majority of the honey-bee larvae eat honey.
According to Wikipedia, a hive is used to describe an artificial/man-made structure to house a honey bee nest.
The internal structure of the nest is densely packed with a group of hexagonal prismatic cells made of beeswax
Apart from getting honey from your bees, there are other products you can extract from bees which serves as raw materials used by big multi-national companies to manufacture various products.
What kind of land do you need for bee keeping in Nigeria?
Beekeeping is different from other agricultural undertakings in Nigeria as you do not need to buy or own a piece of land before you can engage in the business.
For beekeeping you can lease a piece of land, you can partner with fruit farmers who have citrus and mango trees in their farms. Your bees will help in pollinating their fruit trees; thereby increase the yield of their fruit farms.
What quantity of honey can you expect to get from one bee hive?
The following is the beehive super dimensions:
Shallow : 16” x 19 7/8” X 5 7/8”
Medium : 16” x 19 7/8” X 6 5/8”
Deep :16” x 19 7/8” X 9 5/8”
A beekeeper should expect to harvest between 10 – 15 litres of Honey from a hive.
How much do you need to start Bee farming in Nigeria?
Do you know that you can start your bee farming business with as low as N100,000? It can equally be as much as N10 million; depending on your financial muscle and experience.
To cut down cost, it is recommended that you purchase your working equipment locally. When starting out, go for local beehives as you will spend less and have the local knowledge of the equipment suppliers in case of any issue with them.
We have just introduced the concept of beekeeping, you can also see that there is nothing complicated about beekeeping; this is a business you can do without much difficulty.
The business is very profitable, the local demand is huge, and the demand from foreign buyers is so huge that it is difficult to satisfy.
You are advised to take a move today, follow us as we go in the series. In the next article we will be bringing other important issues in beekeeping which will also include exportation of the product.
We also advise that if you are seriously interested in farming bees, you can contact the admin of this forum for practical training.
Keep faith with us as we take you on the journey.
In this article, we are starting a very interesting and lucrative agricultural business that may seem new to so many people.
A lot of people I have met love honey, and they have been wondering how to get into the business of producing honey for both local consumption and export.
To be frank, from our childhood experience; especially those of us from the villages, bees do sting terribly when they meet you in the bush. They attack people in colonies when you accidentally bump into them.
And now we are telling you that the business of beekeeping can be the game changer in your life. How is this going to be possible? Follow us into the beautiful world of beekeeping.
Beekeeping or apiculture is the process of raising and nurturing bees in order to harvest honey or any other products like: propolis, beewax, pollen propolis, and royal jelly from them.
From what we have listed, you can see that there are many other by-products we can get from keeping bees apart from honey.
We will go through them one by one later to understand what they are and how to harvest them.
This business is one of the most promising business ventures anybody can go into and come out highly successful if done properly and marketed well.
Where is the best place to site your bee farm?
Bees are special type of insects closely related to wasps and ants. They are popular for their role in pollination and, in the case of best known species, the western honey bee; for producing honey.
Bees are responsible for producing natural honey that we all love to eat. There are honeys that are not produced by bees. We will get to that later.
It is very important to place the hive in a fruit farm as this will boost pollination. Bees are known agents of pollination; this action will multiply your harvest greatly.
The honey-bees start making honey which they also eat as their food. They make the honey by visiting flowers in the farm around them. They will collect the sugary juice of the flowers called nectar from the blossom by sucking it out with their tongues.
They will then store it in their honey stomach, which is quite different from their food stomach. When they have a full load, they fly back to the hive and offload into their hives.
Honey bees collect nectar and convert it to honey, majority of the honey-bee larvae eat honey.
According to Wikipedia, a hive is used to describe an artificial/man-made structure to house a honey bee nest.
The internal structure of the nest is densely packed with a group of hexagonal prismatic cells made of beeswax
Apart from getting honey from your bees, there are other products you can extract from bees which serves as raw materials used by big multi-national companies to manufacture various products.
What kind of land do you need for bee keeping in Nigeria?
Beekeeping is different from other agricultural undertakings in Nigeria as you do not need to buy or own a piece of land before you can engage in the business.
For beekeeping you can lease a piece of land, you can partner with fruit farmers who have citrus and mango trees in their farms. Your bees will help in pollinating their fruit trees; thereby increase the yield of their fruit farms.
What quantity of honey can you expect to get from one bee hive?
The following is the beehive super dimensions:
Shallow : 16” x 19 7/8” X 5 7/8”
Medium : 16” x 19 7/8” X 6 5/8”
Deep :16” x 19 7/8” X 9 5/8”
A beekeeper should expect to harvest between 10 – 15 litres of Honey from a hive.
How much do you need to start Bee farming in Nigeria?
Do you know that you can start your bee farming business with as low as N100,000? It can equally be as much as N10 million; depending on your financial muscle and experience.
To cut down cost, it is recommended that you purchase your working equipment locally. When starting out, go for local beehives as you will spend less and have the local knowledge of the equipment suppliers in case of any issue with them.
We have just introduced the concept of beekeeping, you can also see that there is nothing complicated about beekeeping; this is a business you can do without much difficulty.
The business is very profitable, the local demand is huge, and the demand from foreign buyers is so huge that it is difficult to satisfy.
You are advised to take a move today, follow us as we go in the series. In the next article we will be bringing other important issues in beekeeping which will also include exportation of the product.
We also advise that if you are seriously interested in farming bees, you can contact the admin of this forum for practical training.
Keep faith with us as we take you on the journey.
