New short video from Self Help Africa that looks at how village beekeepers in Uganda are making a business out of apiculture.<\/p>\n
Local groups in a number of districts have been supported with training in swarm management, beehive manufacture, honey harvesting and in the production and sale of their honey.<\/p>\n
The activity is also linked to efforts to promote the preservation of trees and the natural environment, as trees and other vegetation provides both shelter, and forage crops for their bees, who also act as important germinators of other food crops.<\/p>\n
It is a profitable and worthwhile enterprise too, as the featured village beekeepers will tell you:<\/p>\n