Honeybee Production and Marketing Systems, Constraints - IPMS ...

There is still huge potential to increase honey production and to improve the livelihood of thebeekeepers in the district. Besides the existing natural base, government has recently put in itsagenda the need to develop apiculture as one of the strategies to reduce poverty and to diversifynational exports. NGOs like IPMS are also giving more attention to the sub-sector than everbefore as an important intervention to support the poor and particularly the women. This willgive Bure district farmers the opportunity to access improved technologies and capacity building(training on apiculture). Since recently, there have appeared honey and wax processors andexporter which have formed associations, and beekeepers in the district started to establishcooperatives/unions. These institutional changes will give a good opportunity to createincreasing demand for honey and competitive market in the region and to promote export of hiveproducts, which will in turn result in endogenous technological change and overall developmentin the sub-sector for the district.80