Govt Opens Six Bee Product Plants Within Four Years 

The private sector has also worked to open a number of honey processing factories, as part to boost efforts by the government to stimulate performance of the country’s apiculture sector 

THE government has established a total of six factories for processing bee honey products in the country within a period of four years, 2021-2024.

The plants, established in Nzega, Sikonge, Bukombe, Kibondo, Mlele and Tabora is part of continued efforts by the government to elevate performance of the apiculture sector in the country.

Mr Hussein Msuya, Assistant Commissioner – Beekeeping at the Tanzania Forestry Services (TFS) told the publication that the development gears to expand markets among local bee farmers, as well as general performance in the sector’s value additional chain.

He noted, during the past four years, there has been a major impetus in the beekeeping sector, including consuption of bee products in Tanzania, attributed to viable initiatives engineered by the government towards improving the sector.

“During the past four years, the government has been working, and succeeded to ensure the bee industry provides employment to young people and women, contributes to household income, protects the environment, improves the health of citizens through good nutrition and the use of bee products,” he expressed.

As part to supplement the notable efforts played by the government in the economic sector, he informed that the private sector has also worked round the clock to establish a number of honey processing plants.

These include Central Park Bee (Dodoma) Honey Care Africa (Dar es Salaam), Upendo Honey (Kigoma), Asilia Afrika (Dar es Salaam), Deniza Food Processing ( Dodoma), Kijiji cha Nyuki (Singida) and Afrilife (Kahama).

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Together with that, he communicated that the sector, which plays key role to propell the country’s economic sector, has also established a total of 64 small scale bee honey processing plants in numerous locations of the country.

“These minor factories are playing key role in terms of assuring vast and reliable for the local beekeepers to sell their produce,” he appreciated.

The factories, scattered across the country produces at least 97 brands of honey, making Tanzania to continue curving own niche in the regional and global hobey producing platform.

“The increase in these industries helps beekeepers to get a reliable market, increase the value of their produce, and strengthen the economy of this important sector for national development,” 

 “The government continues to encourage more investment in the beekeeping industry to make it one of the main sources of income and employment in the country,” the TFS office unveiled.

Relevant records shows that Tanzania has successfully managed to generate a total of 69.1bn/- from exportation of 6,016.67 tons of honey between a period from 2021 and 2024, at an average of 1,504.17 tons per year.

During the period, wax sales also reached at 2,410.81 tonnes, worth at 40bn/-, equivalent to an average of 602.71 tons per year.

ABOUT HONEY 

Honey, sweet, viscous liquid food, dark golden in colour, produced in the honey sacs of various bees from the nectar of flowers. Flavour and colour are determined by the flowers from which the nectar is gathered. Some of the most commercially desirable honeys are produced from clover by the domestic honeybee. The nectar is ripened into honey by inversion of the major portion of its sucrose sugar into the sugars levulose (fructose) and dextrose (glucose) and by the removal of excess moisture.

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