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Featuring: Bee Keeping

Great qualities

• Uses readily available natural resources: land, trees, bees

• Bees get their food from the wild

• Bees are natural pollinators and are beneficial to plants: improve crop yields

• Easily integrated with other agricultural activities

• Valuable by-products: beeswax, propolis, royal jelly, and bee venom

• The honey production potential of the SADC region is vastly under-exploited. Most countries, including Zimbabwe, South Africa, Botswana, Mozambique, etc, are net importers of honey: Zimbabwe is said to import up to 60% of its requirements.

• At US$2 per kg for raw honey, a small scale farmer could make US$6000 per quarter from 100 hives (Read the full article HERE .. .)

• White House Honey: Michelle Obama gets her honey from her White House garden! She gets enough to include a small jar in her guests' goodies bags. Her impressive looking garden is pollinated by bees. See some pictures HERE.

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