Preparations For Observation Of 2024 Word Bee Day In Dodoma Capital City Sails On

 

 

By
Valentine Oforo, Dodoma

DODOMA
Capital City has been selected to host next year’s World Bee Day (WBD), the
Global’s apiculture apex event  which has
been slated to take shape on 20 May, 2024, 
it has been confirmed.

The
development was unveiled by the Assistant Acting Director of Beekeeping
Development from the Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism, Mr Daniel
Pancras during a special forum for the preliminary preparation for the observation
of the crucial day.

The
round table forum which convened yesterday in Dodoma Capital City was
coordinated by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism in cooperation
with the Office of Dodoma Regional Commissioner, attracting different experts
and stakeholders in the beekeeping vale chain sector.

 Mr
Pancras, who also serves as the chairperson of the selected special committee
for the preparation of the event expressed during the meeting that due to the
important of the day, considering that bees plays vital role in the country’s
economic growth, environmental conservation and food security, they have realized that it is imperative to start preparing for the cerebration of the day
very earlier.

He added
that the vision was to have an ample time and opportunity to create needed
awareness among the stakeholders in the beekeeping value chain to engage into
effective preparation and thus, participating more professionally in the coming
event which is expected to play a meaningful role in help heighten the
performance of the socioeconomic sector in the country.

“Among
others, it is projected that the event will serve as a potential podium to
disseminate to the participants and the public as a whole key knowledge pertaining
to recommended beekeeping methodologies and conservation,” he detailed.

He
informed that, in Tanzania, the sector is growing at impressive  pace as records depict that at least 2million
people are currently engaging into beekeeping activities, the vital  development which apart from improving their
livelihoods, plays meaningful contributions towards the nation’s economic
gains.

“The
Sixth Phase Government considers beekeeping among the vital economic sectors,
that’s why several initiatives are being taken to improve the performance of
the sector as many others are on the pipeline,” expressed Mr . Salvatory
Mashamba, the Dodoma Regional Natural Resources Officer.

 He added
that the event will go in tandem with exhibitions of diverse products from
beekeeping, but also, will serve a purpose to prepare the country to host the
50th edition of the global apiculture summit, the International Federation of
Beekeepers’ Associations (APIMONDIA) to be staged in 2027 in Tanzania.

APIMONDI Ais
the global organization whose mandate is to promote beekeeping and anything and
everything to do with bees, an organization that has existed in its current form
since 1895.

During
the meeting, the participants majored on the discussion of different topics
including the theme of the World Bee Day in Tanzania, venue for the staging of
the event, as well as how professional to handle the ceremony for the
observations of the key more successfully.

The
participants who featured in the one-day meeting were those from the
President’s Office-Regional Administration and Local Government, Prime
Minister’s Office, Tanzania Forestry Services (TFS), The Honey Exports
Association of Tanzania (HEAT), Beekeeping Value Chain Support (BEVAC) Project,
Tanzania Beekeeping Development Organization (TABEDO), Dodoma City Council and
other relevant stakeholders.

 

ABOUT
WORLD BEE DAY 2024

World
Bee Day is a day of awareness about the importance of honey bees and why we
need to protect them and other such pollinators. Designated by the United
Nations, World Bee Day seeks to inform and educate people about honey bees and
their impact on our biodiversity. For example, it is estimated that one out of
every three mouthfuls of food we eat depends on honey bees and the pollination
process. But honey bees are facing extinction, with a 2021 report by the Center
for Biological Diversity and the Bombus Pollinators Association of Law Students
finding that American honey bees had decreased by some 89 percent.  

 World Bee Day is a day of awareness about the
harmful effects of pesticides, climate change, and habitat loss on honey bees –
and what we can do to reverse this.

World
Bee Day 2024 takes place on Saturday, May 20. May 20 was chosen as World Bee
Day by the United Nations in honor of the birthday of Anton Janša, the pioneer
of beekeeping in the 18th century.

HISTORY
OF WORLD BEE DAY

World
Bee Day is a relatively recent holiday. This is in response to the ongoing
climate change crisis, with more bee species than ever before being reported to
be facing extinction in the past 10 years. As a result, the committee of
Slovenia appealed to the United Nations in 2017 to honor World Bee Day. In
December of the same year, the United Nations approved the proposal, naming May
20 as International World Bee Day, with the first event taking place in 2018.
In 2024, World Bee Day will celebrate its fifth anniversary.

FIVE
WORLD BEE DAY FACTS YOU WON’T “BELIEVE!”

Bees are
the most important pollinator in the world and have been for centuries. But
here are some interesting facts you may not know about these winged creatures:

1.      The average honey bee will only make
around 1/12th of a teaspoon of honey in its entire lifetime.

2.       A single bee visits 50 to 100 flowers on
each pollination trip.

3.      Almost 75 percent of the crops grown in
the world rely on honey bee pollination.

4.      Bees have four wings!

5.       There are over 25,000 different species
of bee – and many of them can’t even sting!

 

 

 

 

 

 

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