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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHThe author was born in 1970 in Merawi town of Mecha Woreda, West Gojjam AdministrativeZone of Amhara Region from his father Mr. Belie Tefalete and his mother Mrs. FentaneshAmarhegh.He attended his primary and junior secondary school education in Merawi and completed hissecondary education at Tana Haik Senior Secondary School in Bahir Dar.After successfully passing his Ethiopian School Leaving Examination, he joined the AlemayaUniversity of Agriculture in September 1987 and graduated in July 1990 with BSc. in the field ofAnimal Science.Shortly after his completion, he was employed in the Ministry of Agriculture and deployed atEast Gojjam Administrative Zone and at regional level. The various responsibilities he has gonethrough under the Woreda, Zonal and Regional Agricultural Bureau includes; an expert in theLivestock and Fisheries Development, Apiculture and Animal resource multiplication for tenyears and head of Woreda Agricultural Office for seven years. Finally the author enrolled inBahir Dar University to specialize his M.Sc. in the field of Animal production.iii
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSAbove all, thanks to my almighty God for his help in giving me courage to cop up complicatedsituations I faced for pursuing my study (from high school to university) and for his help andcourage during my whole study time.I am very grateful to my advisor Dr. Amsalu Bezabeh for accepting me as his advisee, for hisprofessional supports and due concerns from the very start of designing the research proposal upto thesis write up.I owe my deepest thanks to my co-advisor Dr. Zeleke Mekuriaw for his invaluable andunreserved assistance during the whole work of this study. I am very much indebted to him forthe amount of work he put into this task, which made the study to be completed successfully.I would like to thank International Livestock Research Institute; IPMS project for sponsoring thestudy without which the completion of this study would not have been possible in such asuccessful way.It is my pleasure to thank Dr. Firew Tegegne for the help he provided in commenting, correctingand designing research proposal.Grateful acknowledgements are extended to the enumerators for their co-operation and to thesample respondents and key informants who co-operated with me in supplying relevantinformation in addition to their hospitality during the period of data collection. Thanks areforwarded to Amhara National Regional State (ANRS) Bureau of Agriculture for offering me theopportunity to pursue this study, and Bahir Dar University for hosting me. My thanks andappreciations also go to SOS Sahel (UK), particularly, Muluferd Ashagre, for providing supplies,relevant reference materials and literature access.My thanks also go to Dr.Eshete Degen, Dr. Azage Tegegn, Dr. Yegzaw Desalegn, IPMS projectstaff, for their cooperation and excellent facilitation during study period.iv
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Page 3 and 4: DEDICATIONThis thesis is dedicated
Page 5: LIST OF ABBREVIATIONSACSIAMPANRSBoA
Page 9 and 10: LIST OF FIGURESFigure 2: Traditiona
Page 11 and 12: LIST OF ABBREVIATIONSACKNOWLEDGEMEN
Page 13 and 14: Appendix 7.2 Honeybee Floras of Bur
Page 15 and 16: 1. INTRODUCTIONAfrica is blessed wi
Page 17 and 18: Recently, different beekeeping deve
Page 19 and 20: 2. LITERATURE REVIEW2.1 Origin and
Page 21 and 22: Beekeeping up to 1500 AD continued
Page 23 and 24: this characteristic allows their su
Page 25 and 26: people to look more deeply at the f
Page 27 and 28: 2002). Among these A.m. monticlola
Page 29 and 30: hives, environmental conditions and
Page 31 and 32: give higher yield and quality honey
Page 33 and 34: Honeybee is also believed to play a
Page 35 and 36: properties of Ethiopian honey were
Page 37 and 38: An introduction of improved hives a
Page 39 and 40: 3.1.2 Topography, Altitude and Clim
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Page 43 and 44: homogenized honey samples. The refr
Page 45 and 46: The absorbance of the sample soluti
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Page 51 and 52: 4.1.4 Livestock holdings and purpos
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4.2.1.2 Top bar hive beekeepingAcco
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4.2.2 Reason for involvement in bee
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Table 9: Criteria to select an apia
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service shouldered on Bureau of Agr
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Generally, top bar and moveable fra
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4.2.8 Beekeeping trainingFrom this
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4.2.10 Incidence of absconding and
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indigenous knowledge, further resea
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Figure 5: Colony marketing in Bure
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form of top-bar hive may be one ste
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gourd (10.8%) and animal skin (2.5%
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colonies are not placed nearby sour
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Table 22: Major enemies of bees in
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Table 23: Indigenous knowledge of b
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Table 24: Percent distribution of u
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There was price variations based on
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our country the acceptable HMF is b
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Table 27: Physiochemical component
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Generally, top bar and moveable fra
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Table 29 Major constraints of beeke
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More over improving and encouraging
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6 REFERENCESAdebabay kebede, Kerale
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honeybee (A. mellifera L.) disease
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Martin, E.C. 1976. The use of bees
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7 APPENDIXAppendix 7.1 Map of the s
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Amharic Scientific name Floral cale
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Appendix 7.3 Relationship of water
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Appendix 7.5 Method of Chemical Sol
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Appendix 7.6 Honey quality laborato
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2. Crop Production2.1 Landholding (
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4. Credit Sources and Availability4
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5.1.10.2. If there is a decrease in
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5.1.17. What are the major advantag
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5.3. Beekeeping equipments and prot
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1. Removal of queen cells 1.Yes ___
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5.4.17. What are the sale prices of
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7.1. Do you sale your honey? 1. Yes
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8. Constraints of beekeeping8.1. Wh
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