The API News The API News is a quarter annual sector newsletter published by the ETHIOPIAN APICULTURE BOARD

Volume 2 Number 4 December 2015

The views expressed in the articles are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the EAB

44th

APIMONDIA,

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The 44th APIMONDIA, the international apiculture exhibition, was held from September 14th to September 21st 2015 in Daejeon, South Ko-rea. This year, about 9,000 participants from all over the world joined the event. The Ethiopian delegation counted 14 participants from the Ethiopian government, from the EAB, the EBA, the EHBPEA, SNV and others.

The APIMONDIA is the international Federation of Beekeepers’ Associations and other organizations coming together, working on the apicultural sector. The aim of APIMONDIA is to promote scientific, technical, ecological, social and economic development of apiculture all over the world. During the event beekeepers, scientists, honey traders, development agents, technicians and legislators met to exchange information, to discuss on common topics and to learn from each other.

For further information continue reading on pages 3 and 4.

The picture

shows

members of

the Ethiopian

delegation

at the

APIMONDIA

2015

Sector News 2

Report from APIMONDIA 2015 3

Beekeepers assist beekeepers technology transfer in practice 4

A case from ASPIRE -Fremeles Beekeeping Cooperative 5

Practical hints and capacity Development - good seasonal Management practices 6

Training of trainers on practical queen rearing and daylight beekeeping 7

Upcoming events 8

Inside

Contributors

Dr Juergen Greiling (JG) - EAB Negash Bekena (NB) - EAB Guta Olana (GO) - EAB Mulufird Ashagrie (MA) - EAB Tewelde Gebretinsae (TG) - Axum University

Impressum

API NEWS - Apiculture Sector Newsletter Vol. 2 No. 4 (2015) Published quarterly by the Ethiopian Apiculture Board (EAB)

Legehar, Churchill Ave Teklu Desta Bldg, 2nd Floor P.O.Box 2307 Tel 0921 785839 ethioapic2012@gmail.com

Responsible: Negash Bekena, General Manager, EAB +251 911879963 nbtb1963@yahoo.com

Editor: Dr. Juergen Greiling (EAB) 0921 785839 juergen.greiling@cimonline.de

Special acknowledgement: The assistance of Niklas Heidemann, volunteer and beekeeper from Germany, is gratefully acknowledged.

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Dear reader, This is the 4

th issue of the API NEWS in

2015 – at the same time the last one in 2015. We are very happy that we man-aged to provide news, case stories, ad-vice and current information to our read-ers four times during the past year. This is a good point in time to thank my team members at the EAB for their support and hard work. In this issue you will find a report and a reflection (“lessons learnt”) on the last APIMONDIA which took place in South Korea a few months ago. As you all know, sector development is an impor-tant part of value chain development. We do have many deficits and shortcom-ings in this regard, and need to learn and adopt if we want to develop the api-culture value chain. “Good seasonal management practices” is the title of another contribution for your reflection and consideration. On the “Advertisement” page you can see a copy of advertisements from a foreign apiculture journal. Why? Be-cause local input providers have not yet decided to utilize the API NEWS for pro-moting their products. But they should. Again and again, beekeepers from out-side Addis Ababa face problems in find-ing sources for the provision of apicul-ture inputs. As the API NEWS reaches a wider audience it could be a tool to link those in need of inputs with those who can provide them. With best regards Dr Juergen Greiling Senior Advisor to the Ethiopian Apiculture Board

MESSAGE FROM

The views expressed in the articles are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the EAB

የአዘጋጁ መሌእክት

SECTOR NEWS

DeveloPPP Programme on the “Promotion of Sustainable Forest Products from Biosphere Reserves in Ethiopia” holds Information Sharing Meeting on the Strategic Alliance.

On December 15, 2015 an information Sharing Meeting of the commencing Stra-tegic Alliance on the “Promotion of Sus-tainable Forest Products from Biosphere Reserves in Ethiopia” was held in Addis Ababa. The meeting was organized by the Coordination Unit of the GIZ-Ethiopia Pro-gramme “Developing Partnerships with the Private Sector”.API NEWS reported about this new venture in Vol.2 No 2. Under the DeveloPPP Programme a Stra-tegic Alliance on the “Promotion of Sus-tainable Forest Products from Biosphere Reserves in Ethiopia” has been initiated between GIZ and two German private partners offering a development ap-

proach enabling the regions to promote sustainable livelihoods and forest preser-vation according to the Biosphere Re-serve approach. One company is Origi-nal Food which has been purchasing wild coffee from Kafa now for almost 10 years already. The second private partner is Tuchel & Sohn, one of the biggest honey importing company in Germany which is very interested to win Ethiopian smallholders from Kafa and Sheka as their suppliers, in partner-ship with producer’s organizations on the one hand and traders as well as proces-sors / exporters on the other. Hence, GIZ and the private partners are committed to assist in promotion of wild coffee and honey as biosphere reserve products to improve the quality and quan-tity of the products, create market link-ages, boost the income of local small-holder farmers and decrease the pressure on the natural forest in the project areas –Kafa and Sheka Biosphere Reserves. This information sharing meeting was at-

tended by public and private partners of the new project on the one hand and by sector partners such as UNESCO, EAB, EHBPEA, SNV, ACDI/VOCA, regional and national governmental authorities, NABU, UNIDO, ECX and GIZ BioDiv on the other. A total of 25 persons attended. The meet-ing was moderated by Mrs Elisaveta Kostova, who firstly presented the project, its objectives and activities in more details. Secondly a fruitful discussion between the stakeholders came up on the issues of certification, further cooperation and coor-dination in the coffee and honey value chains, the involvement of private actors in the honey sector, the collaboration with the Ethiopian government and ways forward in

the topic forest protection.

26th National MSP was cancelled and

postponded to the beginning of 2016. New

invitations will be sent out by the EAB.

(JG)

ውዴ አንባቢዎች ይህ የንብ ዜና እትማቸህን በ2007/08 ዓ.ም ወይም በፈረንጆቹ 2015

ሇ4ኛ ግዜ የታተመች ሲሆን በተሇያየዩ አምድቿ ጠቃሚ ዜናዎችን፣

ዘገባዎችን፣ ምክረ ሃሳቦችንና ወቅታዊ መረጃዎችን ሇእናንተ

በማቅረባችን ዯስተኞች ነን፡፡ ይህ እትም በወቅቱ ተዘጋጅቶ ወዯናንተ

እንዱዯርሱ ጠንካራ እገዛና ትብብር ሊዯረጉሌኝ የኢትዮጵያ ንብ ሃብት

ቦርዴ የስራ አጋሮቼን ማመስገን እፈሌጋሌሁ፡፡

በዚህ እትም ዉስጥ ከቅርብ ወራት በፊት በዯቡብ ኮሪያ በተዘጋጀዉ

የአፒሞንዱያ ፕሮግራም ወቅት የተገኙ ሌምድችን አቀርብሊችሀኋሇሁ፡፡

ሇንብ ሀብት እዴገት መረጋገጥ የዘርፉ የሌማት ትስስር ጠንካራ መሆን

የማይተካ ሚና እንዲሇዉ ይታወቃሌ፡፡ በዚህ ረገዴ በርካታ

ክፍተቶችና ችግሮች እንዲለብን የሚታወቅ ሲሆን የዘርፉን የሌማት

ትስስር ሇማረጋገጥ ብዙ መማርና መስራት ይጠበቅብናሌ፡፡

በተጨማሪም በወቅታዊ የንብ ማነብ ስራዎች ዙሪያ የተገኙ መሌካም

ተሞክሮዎችን ያቀረብን ሲሆን ሇስራችሁ መቃናት ጠቃሚ

ሌምድችን በመዉሰዴ የእናንተንም አስተያየት ሇማስቀመጥ

እንዯሚጠቅመሟችሁ በመተማመን ነዉ፡፡

በማስተወቂያ ገጻችን ሊይ ከዉጭ አገር የንብ ሀብት ህትመቶች የተገኙ

የተሇያዩ ማስታወቂያዎችን መመሌከት የምትችለ ሲሆን ይህንን

ያዯረግንበት ምክንያት በሀገር ዉስጥ ያለ የግብአት አቅራቢዎች

ይህንን የንብ ዜና እትማችንን በመጠቀም ምርቶቻቸዉን ሇማስተዋወቅ

ባሇመወሰናቸዉ ነዉ፡፡ በመሆኑም ከአዱስ አበባ ዉጭ የሚገኙ

በርካታ ንብ አናቢዎች ግብዓት አቅራቢዎችን ሇማግኝት በተዯጋጋሚ

ሲቸገሩ ይስተዋሊሌ፡፡ ነገር ግን ይህ የንብ ዜና እትማቸን ሇበርካታ

የዘርፉ ተዋናዮችና አናቢዎች ስሇሚዯርስ ግብእት ፈሊጊዎቹን

ከአቅራቢዎቹ ጋር ሇማገናኘት አይነተኛ አስተዋጽዖ ይኖረዋሌ፡፡

ከከበረ ሰሊምታ ጋር

ዋና አዘጋጅ ድ/ር ጆርገን ግራይሉንግ

(የኢትዮጵያ ንብ ሀብት ቦርዴ ከፍትኛ አማካሪ)

3 The views expressed in the articles are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the EAB

The 44th APIMONDIA, the international

apiculture exhibition, was held from September 14

th to September 21

st

2015 in Daejeon, South Korea. This year about 9,000 participants from all over the world joined the event. The Ethiopian delegation counted 14 par-ticipants. Members included H.E. Dr. G/Egziabher, State Minister of the Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries Development (MoLFD), representa-tives from the Ministry of Industry, from the EAB, the EBA, the EHBPEA, SNV as well as two private actors and the president of the Africa Commission of APIMONDIA. The trip was financed by SNV Ethiopia’s ASPIRE-project (Apiculture Scaling up Program for Income and Rural Employment).

The APIMONDIA is the international Federation of Beekeepers’ Associa-tions and other organizations coming together, working on the apicultural sector. The Federation was founded by resolutions passed at the XIII International Apicultural Congress of 1949 in Amsterdam and is the successor to the International Apiarist Congress Secretariat founded in 1895. The aim of APIMONDIA is to promote scientific, technical, ecologi-cal, social and economic development of apiculture all over the world. During the event beekeepers, scientists, honey traders, development agents, technicians and legislators met to ex-change information, to discuss on common topics and to learn from each other. Many symposia, plenary sessions, roundtable discussions and work-shops were joined by the Ethiopian delegates. Additionally oral and poster presentations were held by members of the Ethiopian group. However taking part in one of the of-fered technical tours was possible for the team members. For the first time the Ethiopian dele-gation had the privilege to take part in the general assembly. State Minister H.E Dr. G/Egziabher got the chance to hold a speech in one of the execu-tive councils. Being a member of API-

MONDIA is a good commitment for Ethiopia as a major actor in the global honey industry. It requires having am-bitions and opens to share lessons in the industry with the rest of the world. The Ethiopian team was expected to draw lessons on technology and qual-ity, beekeeping management, coordi-nation as well as the extension of re-search and development issues. Achievements in policy development were made during the experience sharing sessions with the peer asso-ciations from Tanzania, Uganda, New Zealand and Australia.

The Ethiopian booth displayed bees products, promotional materials; the traditional Ethiopian coffee ceremony significantly increased the positive image of the country.

Lessons learned from APIMONDIA

The growing concern with making beekeeping more sustainable globally and the accompanying realization that issues affecting the welfare of bees span all the way from the global to the local level have raised new chal-lenges both for bees and the human being. Scientists are increasingly aware that the current state can’t be seen as “business as usual” in terms of bee health, pollination, quality of bee prod-ucts, etc. The Ethiopian team has drawn many lessons from the different sessions held at Daejeon. Members have

learned that building institutional syn-ergies for enhancing sustainable bee-keeping development in the country inevitably involves a varied approach and working together.

The major lessons learned are the importance of:

• Ensuring better integration of disci-plinary perspectives and different forms of knowledge

• Enhancing learning, adaptation and evaluation through various types of feedback • Identifying how actors in the honey value chain in Ethiopia can benefit best and under which conditions • Overcoming resource and capacity constraints • Ensuring more support by the gov-

ernment

Other Lessons learned

• Most countries make an analysis on the economic benefits of integrating beekeeping into other agricultural activities and environment. They also made analysis on how to improve the beekeeping industry

• Many initiatives are taken and progress is being made globally in bee science, breeding, nutrition etc.

• The health of honeybees is critical for survival of human beings

• Bees significantly improve crop quality and productivity.

44th

APIMONDIA,

Daejeon, South Korea, September 14th to 21st, 2015

General Information on APIMONDIA 2015

Ethiopia‘s booth at APIMONDIA 2015.

The views expressed in the articles are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the EAB 4

Beekeepers assist Beekeep-ers: technology transfer in practice

A beekeeper and master joiner (with his own workshop in Central Germany) Mr Erich Toepfer visited his Ethiopian beekeeper foster child Ebse Hika Fida in Nekempte during Decem-ber, 2015, on a private visit to Ethio-pia. He was accompanied by his wife Bettina. Erich (who supported Ebse with a grant for equipment worth 200 EUR earlier this year) had collected more

funds from German beekeeper p a r t n e r s t h r o u g h t h e N G O “Beekeepers for Beekeepers in Ethiopia”. The money was sufficient to buy tools and consumables necessary for the production of modern ZANDER box hives. Erich brought detailed plans for the construction of the hives and guided the group how to construct ZANDER beehives. The young beekeepers in Nekempte worked together for a total of 8 days and managed to build 8 complete hives including frames according to Ethiopian (and German) standards (they are the same).

Ebse, Obse and her f r iends established a Female Graduate Beekeepers Group in Nekempte, received access to land from the local authorities, established an apiary and are presently approaching a number of 10 colonies in modern hives. They intend to market apiculture products in Nekempte, and would also like to sell inputs as well in order to broaden their income generation opportunities. They will market their own ZANDER hives in the future (production as well as nucleus hives). (JG)

• Most countries manufacture bee-keeping technologies and supplies to reduce cost and to produce them to fit their own local needs and contexts • Quality is he most important thing in the honey business. The issue of adulteration in honey production is a global issue • Apitherapy is increasingly becoming a common human health practice on therapeutic effects of bees and bee products • The role of beekeeping for rural transformation is crucial. • APIMONDIA Congress hosting countries benefit in many ways. Thus Ethiopia should bid to host APIMONDIA in 2023 and to host ApiExpo Africa in 2018. Way forward….

As a way forward, the team agreed to develop a joint action plan that sets out the responsibilities of major actors to address the following issues and the implementation process will be led by the three associations and the gov-ernment at all levels. The issues raised as the way forward are included simply to take advantage of the pres-ence of the major representatives of the sector, otherwise they are issues in the wider sub-sector. • Develop out grower scheme and enact out-grower laws

• Conduct gap analysis on our exten-sion provision

• Focused and supported bee farm commercialization • Work critically on enabling environ-ment and issuing of licenses to com- bat adulteration

• Facilitate the establishment and strengthening/accreditation of labora-tories to undertake all types of honey and other bee products analysis

• Establish a coordinated donor sup- port mechanism • Combating illegal honey trading and adulteration • Strengthen the recently started

culture of the three associations to working together

• Improve artificial bee feeding and management • Establish supply chains to have the

required level of bee products diversification by promoting input supplies and technologies, like pollen harvesting devices

• Improve packaging both for bulk and retail selling • Facilitate bilateral, both technical

and financial, cooperation with countries who have a long standing improved beekeeping tradition like that of Korea

• Branding the Ethiopian honey on the basis of the flora sources • Higher attention should be given to our participation in APIMONDIA by

the government and should be planned in good time • Conduct annual events in Ethiopia and prepare to bid to hosting the APIMONDIA in 2023 • There must be a master strategy for beekeeping in Ethiopia • Improve value adding • Research and development activities must be financed not only by the government but by all the ators • Traceability and hygiene systems must be established • C o n d u c t h o n e y c o m p e t i t i o n periodically

• Establish a database for beekeeping • Facilitate equipment and technology supply through working with local companies like METECH • Conduct inventory on available laboratory facilities and equipment to determine the requirement.

...to be continued on page 8

Women of Nekempte producer group fixing the

Ready made chamber for a modern frame hive.

Production of frames for the new hives.

Speach of participant held in front of the APIMONDIA-audience in Daejeon.

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Fremeles beekeeping

cooperative

Right: Leaders of Fremeles beekeeping cooperative

A case from ASPIRE

Case studies are useful tools for information and learning - Enjoy Reading!

Fremeles cooperative is found in south-Eastern Zone, Wereda Dega Tembien, Tabia Adi Azmera of Tigray Region. The cooperative was established in 2005 Eth.C with 21 members (3 Female and 18 male) having 10 honey bee colonies. All members of the coopera-tive abide to their bylaws and contribute their effort in strengthening their busi-ness scheme. Currently the number of members is 19 (3 of them are females). The coop-erative has raised the number of honey bee colonies from 10 to 31. Twenty eight bee colonies are in framed hives, 1 in a transitional and 4

in traditional hives. All members have participated in ASPIRE beekeeping minimum package training which was organized by the Association of Innovative Farmers for Beekeeping and its Results. After the training, all members of the cooperative acquired beekeeping management skills such as; inspecting bee colonies, multiplying bee colonies, feeding, har-vesting and other management tech-niques. During the last harvesting sea-son, the cooperative has produced 170 Kg of pure honey. The honey was sold at 160 Birr/Kg to COMEL. They earned 27,200 Birr. The cooperative has a plan to purchase additional bee colonies and beehives with the money they gener-ated through honey sales.

Romha Assefa (Age 30, male)

Address: Wereda: D/Tembien Tabia: Adi Azmera Kushet: Miktar Romha was working with Belgian Msc and PHD students around H/Selam, Doga Tembien, Tigray, Ethiopia as a research assistant since 1998 Eth.C. He was one of the initiator of the As-sociation of Innovative Farmers for Beekeeping and its Results. He has learned more about beekeeping from the innovative farmers. As one of the potential associations working in beekeeping, the associa-tion was given an opportunity to send one candidate to participate in the second round ASPIRE minimum package TOT training held in Holetta; and Romha was selected to partici-pate in the training conducted in October 2006 E.C. After getting trained, his interest to engage in beekeeping was dramati-cally increased. He has actively participated in conducting trainings for more than 1500 beekeepers in the district. Romha’s interest wasn’t limited only to

offer practical trainings and advice to

small-scale farmers and investors. He

decided to have a demonstration

apiary site for honey production and

bee colony multiplication in the dis-

trict. Accordingly, currently he owns

five hectares of land and an apiary

site in a well-established enclosured

area at Wereda Dega Tembien, Tabia

Adi Azmera.

The apiary site was established in 2006 Eth.C with 45 strong bee colo-nies. He has harvested 1.5 quintal of pure white honey from which he sold 1 quintal to CoMEL PLC. The remain-ing honey was sold to consumers in Mekelle town. In the future, he has a plan to work with many beekeepers in the Wereda and neighboring Weredas, while increasing productivity and production as well as improving honey quality and establishing a honey processing plant. Birhu Aregay (Age 35, female) Address: Wereda: D/Tembien Tabia: Adi Azmera Kushet: Mesenkot Birhu is the head of a family having six members. She has experience in bee-keeping for a few years. Her skills and knowledge in beekeeping were up-graded after taking the ASPIRE mini-mum package training organized by the Association of Innovative Farmers for Beekeeping and its Results in Oc-tober 2007 Eth.C.

She increased the number of bee colo-nies from 10 to 18 after she has been engaged in the training. She has acquired the skill to inspect, to multi-ply, to feed and to harvest bee colo-nies. Of the 18 bee colonies she owns, 13 are kept in frame hives and 5 in traditional hives. She is also giving technical advice to her neighbor bee-keepers.

During the last season, she harvested 105 Kg pure honey and sold it to honey traders in Mekelle at 180 Birr/Kg amounting to 18,900 Birr. With this money, she started constructing her house and covers the cost of school for her children. She has planned to establish an apiary site near to her residence and to increase the number of bee colonies.

(GO)

The views expressed in the articles are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the EAB

Partial view of Fremeles apiary Site

Romha at his apiary site

ቀፎዉ ልንግስተሮቭ ከሆነ ዯግሞ ሁለንም የማር ቦታ በማስወገዴ ከተቻሇ የንብ መዉጫዉን

መጠቀም፤

ንቦች ከሚፈሇፈለበት የታችኛዉ ቀፎ ዉስጥ ማር መቁረጥ አያስፈሌግም፡፡ ምክንያቱምያ የህብረንቡ

ስሇሆነ፤

ማሩን በመጠኑ በመቁረጥ ሇህብረንቡ ማስተረፍ አስፈሊጊ ከመሆኑም በሊይ ንቦቹ እንዲይሰዯደ

ይረዲሌ፡፡

ከአበባ ወቅት በኋሊ

ንቦች እንዲይሰዯደ ሇመከሊከሌ ባድ የሆኑትን የማር እንጀራዎች ማስወገዴ ፤

የቀፎዉን ቦታ በማካፈያ በመክፈሌ የማር እንጀራዉን በትንሽ ቀፎ ሊይ ማንጠሌጠሌ ወይም ቀዴሞ

ወዯነበረበት ትንሽ ሳጥን መመሇስ፤

በቀፎዉ ዉስጥ ወይም በቀፎዉ አጠገብ ዉሃ ማቅረብ፤

በተቻሇ መጠን ቀፎዉን በትንሹ መክፈት፤

የቀፎዉን የሊይኛዉ ክፍሌ በመዯብ በመሸፈን ሙቀት እንዲይወጣ ማዴረግ ያስፈሌጋሌ፡፡

ንብ አናቢዎች የህብረንቡን ብዛትና ጤና በመጠበቅ እንዱሁም የቀፎዉን መጠን እንዯየወቅቱ ሁኔታ

በማመጣጠን ከአበባ ወቅት በኀሊ የሚከሰተዉን የንብ ስዯትን መከሊሇከሌ ይቻሊሌ፡፡ በዚህም ብዙ

ህብረንብ እንዱኖረን በማዴረግ በቀጣይ ወቅቶች በርካታ የማር ምርት ከእያንዲንደ ህብረንብ ማግኘት

ይቻሊሌ፡፡ ነገርግን ከፍተኛ ትኩረት መስጠት ያሇብን ሇህብረንቡ መጠን እንጂ ሇብዛቱ መሆን

የሇበትም፡፡ ምክንያቱም ብዛታቸዉ ትንሽ የሆኑ ትሌሌቅ ህብረንቦች ብዛታቸዉ ከፍተኛ ከሆኑ ትንንሽ

ህብረንቦች የበሇጠ የማር ምርት ስሇሚሰጡ ነዉ፡፡

- Good seasonal management practice Given below is our advice for the development of the bee colony and the production of plenty of honey from season to season. Upgoing season

Keep the colony in a small space when it is still small, for instance, in a small hive or big hive with divider board.

Enlarge the hive when the colony grows by removing the divider board, by hanging the combs in a bigger hive or by adding a chamber.

Ensure that you have enough small hives to bait swarms.

Put late swarms and smaller colonies together. Prevent absconding occurring later in the downgoing

season by keeping bigger colonie for example by merging them.

Harvesting of honey

Do not harvest honey from small colonies. Harvest as late as possible when there is enough

space in the hive. For top-bar hives: hang the combs in a harvest hive, if

possible also do this with traditional hives. Do this so that damage to the combs is kept to the minimum and then extract the honey.

For Langstroth hives: remove an entire honey super, using a bee outlet if necessary.

Do not harvest honeycombs from the undermost brood chamber. These are for the colony. Harvest in moderation so that there is enough left over

for the bee colony and to limit absconding.

Downgoing season

Prevent absconding by removing empty combs. Limit the space by using a divider board, hanging the

combs in a smaller hive or reverting to fewer chambers.

Provide a supply of water inside or close to the hive. Open the hives as little as possible. Cover the top of the hive well to avoid heat loss.

By keeping healthy and large colonies and by adjusting the size of the hives to the seasons, beekeepers can prevent absconding later in the dearth period. Then more colonies can be kept in the following season with the result that even more honey can be harvested from each colony. The size of the colony must, however, have priority over the number, because a few big colonies will produce more

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Practical Hints and Capacity Development

Source: CTA. 2005a. Beekeeping in the tropics, Agrodok 32, Wageningen,

the Netherlands .

Source: CTA. 2005a. Beekeeping in the tropics, Agrodok 32, Wageningen,

the Netherlands .

የማምረት አቅምን የሚያሳዴጉ ተግባራዊ ምክረ ሃሳቦች

- ወቅታዊ የሆኑ የንብ ማነብ ስራዎች

በየወቅቱ አዲዱስ ህብረንብ ሇማፍራት የሚያስችለና ከፍተኛ ምርትን ሇማምረት የሚጠቅሙ ምክረ

ሃሳቦችን እንዯሚከተሇዉ አቅርበናሌ፡፡

በንብ መራቢያ ወቅት

በቅዴሚያ ህብረንቡን በትንሽ ቦታ ሊይ እንዱሆን ማዴረግ አስፈሊጊ ሲሆን ቀፎዉ ትሌቅ ከሆነ ግን

ቀፎዉን በማካፈያ መክፈሌ አስፈሊጊ ነዉ፤

ህብረንቡ እየበዛ ሲሄዴ የቀፎዉን ማካፈያ በማዉጣት ወይም የማር እንጀራዉን በትሌቁ ቀፎ ዉስጥ

በማንጠሌጠሌ ወይም ተጨማሪ ሳጥን በመጨመር ቀፎዉ ሰፊ እንዱሆን ማዴረግ፤

አዱስ ሇተከፈሇዉ ህብረንብ ማረፊያ የሚሆን ላሊ አነስተኛ ቀፎ መኖሩን ማረጋገጥ፤

ዘግይተዉ የተፈሇፈለትን ህብረንቦችና ትንሹን ህብረንብ በአንዴ ሊይ ማዴረግ፤

የአበባ ወቅት ካሇፈ በኋሊ የሚፈጠረዉን የህብረንብ መጥፋትን ሇመከሊከሌ ከዋናዉ ህብረንብ ጋር

በመቀሊሇቀሌ ማስቀመጥ ተገቢ ነዉ፡፡

ማር በሚቆረጥበት ወቅት

ብዛቱ ትንሽ ከሆነዉ ህብረንብ ሊይ ማር አሇመቁረጥ፤

በቀፎዉ ዉሰጥ በቂ ቦታ ካሇ ከመቁረጫዉ ወቅት ትንሽ ዘግይቶ መቁረጥ ፤

ቀፎዉ ዘማናዊ ከሆነ የማር እንጀራዉን በሚቆረጥበት ቀፎ ዉስጥ ማንጠሌጠሌ፡፡ ይህ ዘዳ

ሇባህሊዊዉም ቀፎ ሉሰራ የሚችሌ ሲሆን ይህንን በማዴረግ የማር እንጀራዉ እንዲይጎዲ በመጠንቀቅ

ማሩን መቁረጥ፤

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African beekeeping has remained to

be a night activity owing to the highly

defensive behavior of Afr ican

honeybee races in one hand and

unfriendly beekeeping practices of

beekeepers on the other hand. As the

bees are kil led by smashing,

squeezing and stinging. Moreover, it

has been difficult to effectively carry

out beekeeping and queen rearing

because of the night beekeeping

tradition. Internal inspection of bee

colonies for diseases, pests, queen,

brood etc are among the difficult tasks

for the night beekeeper. Aksum

University in collaboration with

Exchange-Belgium has conducted

training of trainers on practical queen

rearing and daylight beekeeping. The

training was given by a Belgian

biologist and beekeeping expert, Mr.

Wilfried Ramon. Participants of the

TOT were 10 academic staff members

of Aksum University department of

Animal Science and Ecotourism, 5

staff of Shire Agricultural TVET and 1

beekeeping expert of Tahtay Koraro

District Office of Agriculture and Rural

Development. The training was

conducted in Selekleka research and

demonstration center of Aksum

University during October 01-07, 2015.

To avoid the challenges of night

beekeeping and promote sustainable

beekeeping in Ethiopia and other

African countries, Mr. Wilfried Ramon

has devised a method for daylight

beekeeping. This method tries to get

rid of flying bees during beekeeping

activities in an easy way. Displacing

bee colonies about 20 meters away

from the original place and putting

empty hive with drawn frames in the

original place during the daylight works

perfectly to separate the flying bees

and young bees. So by applying

smoke and closing the entrance, the

group has displaced its treatment

colonies and placed empty hives that

have drawn frame and honey in the

original place. After about one hour,

most of the flying bees were returned

to the empty hives in the original

places. Afterwards, life has become

easier to work with the bees in the

dayl ight. Beekeeping act ivit ies

including inspection, splitting, grafting,

shaking bees to make starter were

practiced during daylights.

Splitting method of queen rearing has

been recommended for the local bees

and conditions in Ethiopia. Recently,

few beekeepers have been producing

colonies using spitting. But honey

production is compromised in the

classic way of colony splitting.

Wilfried’s method of colony splitting

seems to be promising for reproduction

of colonies with less effect on honey

production in a simplified way. It is just

a matter of displacing the desired

colony, waiting for 1 hour, transferring

1 open brood frame with young larvae

from the mother colony to each split,

providing young bees by shaking in the

split colony as well as providing honey

and drawn comb frames. Afterwards,

the mother colony having the queen is

returned to the original place where all

foraging bees will be united to continue

their honey production and the

queenless plits develop their queen to

become productive in few weeks. The

group has produced 4 colonies during

the training and 2 more splits shortly

after the training. All colonies are doing

well so far. This successful practice

can be used as a model to promote

daylight beekeeping in Ethiopia. But

there should be a caution to prove that

no animal and people exist within at

least 100 meters from the apiary during

the daylight beekeeping activities.

(TG)

Training of trainers on practical queen rearing and daylight beekeeping

Teweldemedhin Gebretinsae1, Wilfried Ramon2

1Aksum University Shire campus, Department of Animal Science and Ecotourism

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APIMONDIA report ...continued from page 4 The agreed tentative steps to address the above listed issues are: • Receive comments/feedback on the report from the team and SNV Ethiopia/ ASPIRE: Most of the team members and ASPIRE provided comments to the facilitator and the comments were in corporated into this final report. • Present the final report to the team and SNV/ASPIRE at MoLFO: This will be undertaken as ASPIRE receives confir-

mation from H.E Dr.G/Egziabher. • Develop a comprehensive action plan based on this report, the plans of the three associations, the plan by the government and major development partners: This could be facilitated either by ASPIRE or the associations and H.E Dr.G/Egziabher kindly accepted to lead the process. • Share the agreed action plan with all the major stakeholders through a day- long workshop so that every stakehol- der will be aware of its responsibilities in order for them to be able to own and manage the initiative. (MA)

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