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Why Promote Beekeeping
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Bees make honey.
Honey and other products from beekeeping generate valuable
income to benefit the local community.
Honey is valued for food and for medicine all
over the world.
 Bees pollinate cultivated and wild plants.
Honey is valued by all societies.
Beeswax is useful: for products like candles and soap, and in
crafts
like batik and lost-wax casting.
Beekeeping is possible for people with
few resources:
bees can be obtained from the wild and equipment can be
made locally. Bees do not depend on the beekeeper
for food.
Beekeeping does not use up land needed for crops. Bees collect
where they can, so wild, cultivated and wasteland areas all have
value for beekeeping.
Nectar
and pollen are not used by other livestock: only bees
harvest these
resources
Beekeeping generates income without destroying habitat.
Beekeepers gain financial interest in
caring for
their environment: ensuring that flowers are available
and bees are protected.
Bees can kept by people of all ages. Bees do not need daily
care and beekeeping can be done when other work allows.
Local traders benefit by making hives and
equipment.
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Beekeeping for Development)
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Honey and other products generate valuable
income:
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Honey is a delicious, easily digestible, energy rich food and is highly prized for its medicinal properties.
Bees wax is an important raw material for candles, body creams, ointments and lotions, soaps and polishes.
Propolis, also obtained from hives, has potent anti-fungal and antibacterial properties that are only just being explored and understood.
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Little land or capital is needed to start beekeeping:
Traditional hives or with intermediate technology modern hives can be made of local materials very cheaply and easily - sometimes for free. Hives can be kept on land that is not owned by the bee farmer and the land owner gains from better pollination of crops. Beehives can be kept in places where the land may not be suitable for other crops. They can be kept on rooftops or in trees.
Beekeeping is a 'scaleable' technology. An enterprise can start small and grow as stockmanship and marketing skills develop. It begins with just one or two hives to provide honey and wax products for the family but as beekeepers know, more hives can/will be added until, hey presto, you are a commercial bee farmer. All you have to do is sell the honey and stagger to the bank!! Simplistically, a good beekeeper is measured by how much money they earn.
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Honey improves
diet:
Honey is delicious, easily digestible and is suitable for
almost everyone. It is especially good for growing children or elderly
people who often have small appetites and may not be able to take in
enough calories for their needs. It can be used to make a wide range of
foods, both sweet and savoury, more appetising and exciting.
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Honey is essential for traditional medicines:
Honey has valuable medicinal properties in its own right. It is also combined with herbs and other ingredients for traditional medicines and to make traditional medicine recipes more palatable and easily absorbed into the body.
Creams, ointments and polishes are made from beeswax:
When cleaned and mixed with other ingredients a wide range of creams, ointments, lotions and polishes for shoes, furniture and wood carvings can be made. These can be sold for extra cash or used in the home. All you need to know is how!
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Over 80% of the worlds' food crops are pollinated by honeybees. Tree fruits, top fruit, bush fruit, oil seeds, nuts, pulses, peas and lentils, protein crops and many more crops vital to people's survival depend on bees to help set their seed.
Bees make trees precious so beekeepers protect forests:
When beekeepers are getting valuable crops of honey from their local trees and forests as well as essential shade they know it is important to protect those trees so the honey crops keep on coming. This means they look after the trees carefully and plant more to get bigger honey crops.
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Protecting trees reduces soil erosion:
Deforestation and consequent loss of fertile topsoil is a major problem in many developing countries. Tree roots hold the soil together and stop it from being washed away in heavy rains or floods. Trees also prevent grazing animals from destroying fragile vegetation and exposing soils to nutrient leaching and soil loss. Forest conservation in many parts of the world depends on the people who live in them being able to find ways of making a living without destroying the trees. Beekeeping is an important non-destructive forest industry which helps to sustain people's livelihoods and in doing so also protects the environment.
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