KENYA: Honey trade situation
Harun Baiya

This page is the complete content of a PowerPoint presentation given to the
Bees for Development Honey Trade Workshop held in Dublin, Ireland in August 2005.

You can also download the PowerPoint presentation here

Images © Harun Baiya

SITE Strengthening Informal Sector Training & Enterprise
“Small businesses build big economies"

• A Kenyan not-for-profit development organization, registered under the Companies Act –in operation since 1996

• Goal: Promotion of employment opportunities and economic growth among small-scale producers and enterprises

• Working with urban informal sector and rural agri businesses (dairy, fruits and apiculture) as well as action research on BDS emerging opportunities.

• Main focus of work is facilitation of BDS services provision.

• Long-term partnership with APT ED UK
   

Example of Taita District

• 1200 honey producers firmly in the production/ marketing chain.

• 4500 hives (2500 Langstroth) log and top-bar hives.

• 10 artisans profitably producing inputs (hives, bee suits, implements/ tools).

• Honey refinery – providing quality market honey (230 tonnes per year target).
  Collection centres for honey distribution of inputs etc.

A workshop in Mbere: Machinery services for artisans assembling hives

Creating new MSEs opportunities and linkages

Honey Collection to the Refinery

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