BEVAC Injects Over 30m/- To support 50 Beekeeping Stakeholders To Participate DITF Â
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👉 BEVAC is being implemented by Enabel, the Belgian Development Agency through funds from European Union (EU).
👉 The Tanzania’s currently vast honey markets are Germany, Japan, the United States, the Netherlands, Ireland, Albania, UK, United Arab Emirates, Oman, China, Czech Republic, Poland, Kossovo, Kenya, Rwanda, Malawi and Comoros.
DAR ES SALAAM. THE European Union (EU) funded beekeeping initiative, the Beekeeping Value Chain Support (BEVAC) has spent over 30m/- to support over 50 beekeeping value chain actors to partake in this year’s 49th edition of Dar es Salaam International Trade Fair (DITF).
Spearheaded by Enabel, the Belgian Development Agency, the timely project works to assist the beekeepers across the country to improve honey production and productivity through adoption of modern beekeeping, honey processing as well as markets linkage.
BEVAC Project Manager, Mr Stephen Paul said the chain actors that have been supported to attend the country’s beekeeping apex gala comes from different regions.
These, include Tabora, Singida, Arusha, Dar es Salaam and other regions across Tanzania, according to him.
He expressed: “The main target is to ensure the apiculture stakeholders that are under the project’s shadow are getting crucial platform to exhibit and further marketing their products, as well as expanding market linkages, apart from exchanging experiences,”
Detailing over the project’s rolling out roadmap, Mr. Paul said the initiative was running its key apiculture activities into three main facets.
“The first area is to capacitate the institutions involved in the beekeeping sector to improve their performance, through diverse training as well as distribution of modern facilities,” he expressed.
According to him, the area focuses to empower the beekeeping actors in Tanzania through imparting them with key apiculture knowledge and skills.
” Under this category, BEVAC works to roll out modern beekeeping implements to the farmers, the vision being to assist them adopting modern facilities and technologies that are necessary in improving their honey production and productivity to the high tune to enable their products to comply with the set international standards,” he said.
To help attain this goal, Mr Stephen said the project has procured modern beekeeping facilities in order to open special demo-apiaries, being used as a potential podium to train the beekeepers as initiative to foster quick adoption.
” Through this intervention, the project has already reached a total of 8,012 beekeepers across all areas with apiculture activities, and out of the number, we have so far managed to link more than 4,723 with international markets through supported SMEs,” he noted.
He added, the project’s ongoing initiative focus on make effective use of business coaches via a youth program that help impart the beekeepers cooperatives with useful business skills.
“We’re determined to assist the beekeepers in Tanzania to execute their projects more professionally to the tune of realizing deserved profits that the sector has in offing,” he added.
Speaking on behalf of the project’s beneficiaries, Mr Thomas Charles, the founder of FlameLily thanked BEVAC for it time-heart supports towards the sector’s practitioners in the country.
Through the initiative, he said, a larger number of beekeeping actors have managed to transform their executions to international standards.
” The project has also played key role in elevating performance and standards of honey processing sector in the country, through value addition of diverse honey products,” he said.
He hailed the government for setting good policies and a friendly condition to support the bee honey stakeholders to grow more professionally.
The project, BEVACÂ is being implemented by Enabel, the Belgian Development Agency through funds from European Union (EU), and it operates under the coordination of the Ministry of Tourism and Natural Resources for Tanzania Mainland and Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation, Natural Resources and Livestock in Zanzibar.
Tanzania currently stands at the 14th position for beekeeping in the world.Â
The Tanzania’s currently vast honey markets are Germany, Japan, the United States, the Netherlands, Ireland, Albania, UK, United Arab Emirates, Oman, China, Czech Republic, Poland, Kossovo, Kenya, Rwanda, Malawi and Comoros.
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