We have a number of apiary sites and a major one is in Mpumalanga province, South Africa. The farmer we work with there called today to say we need to bring more empty honeybee catch boxes as the 10 empty ones we took up end of August 2010 are now full of bee colonies!
Our beehives are specially coated with bee attractant. We place our beehives in strategic places on the apiary site to ensure the best opportunity to attract a trekking honeybee swarm.
We are building our total apiary under management to 1000 bee hives within 3 years! The challenge is on. We now have 27 in total with this little beekeeping project so far.
Beekeeping is great! In other beekeeping projects we have over 6 years of experience and run beekeeping courses as well.
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Monday, September 27, 2010
Apiary Management
We provide apiary management services in order to develop commercial honey farming capacity. How does this work?
As beekeepers we require suitable sustainable access to quality flora. It is not feasible for commercial beekeepers to own the land they want to farm bees on. If you already own the land and farm a bee friendly crop it would make sense to incorporate some sort of beekeeping project. That's where we come in.
We seek out farmers with good nectar crops that require increased cross pollination by honeybees. Farmers have the land and the crops in place. They benefit from increased pollination by UJU Honey Africa's bees while owning the actual bee hive. We manage the apiary site by catching bee colonies, developing the optimum apiary size in accordance with the farmer's land capacity and finally maintain the bee colonies for sustainable honey farming.
There are loads of crops that benefit from having increased presence of bees during their pollination cycle. Normally, the pollination period lasts about 21 days. Pollination service providers usually bring bees to the farmer and place them on the farm during this pollination period. The issue then is how many bee colonies are brought to the farm that are established strong swarms ready to pollinate...
We ensure that the apiary or bees are placed on the farm in such a way that they can be permanently left on the apiary site - the farm - and managed to be strong in time to pollinate the crop as effectively as possible.
We currently manage sites in Gauteng and Mpumalanga. The farmer owns the bee hives and we own the contents of the bee hive such as bees, honey, beeswax and propolis. It's a win-win situation.
Farmers get increased fruit set and improved crop yield for low capital investment and own the bee hive while we manage the bees and harvest honey with other by products.
If we can increase crop yield by 10% or so on your crop, what would that be worth to you? Contact us now for more info!
As beekeepers we require suitable sustainable access to quality flora. It is not feasible for commercial beekeepers to own the land they want to farm bees on. If you already own the land and farm a bee friendly crop it would make sense to incorporate some sort of beekeeping project. That's where we come in.
We seek out farmers with good nectar crops that require increased cross pollination by honeybees. Farmers have the land and the crops in place. They benefit from increased pollination by UJU Honey Africa's bees while owning the actual bee hive. We manage the apiary site by catching bee colonies, developing the optimum apiary size in accordance with the farmer's land capacity and finally maintain the bee colonies for sustainable honey farming.
There are loads of crops that benefit from having increased presence of bees during their pollination cycle. Normally, the pollination period lasts about 21 days. Pollination service providers usually bring bees to the farmer and place them on the farm during this pollination period. The issue then is how many bee colonies are brought to the farm that are established strong swarms ready to pollinate...
We ensure that the apiary or bees are placed on the farm in such a way that they can be permanently left on the apiary site - the farm - and managed to be strong in time to pollinate the crop as effectively as possible.
We currently manage sites in Gauteng and Mpumalanga. The farmer owns the bee hives and we own the contents of the bee hive such as bees, honey, beeswax and propolis. It's a win-win situation.
Farmers get increased fruit set and improved crop yield for low capital investment and own the bee hive while we manage the bees and harvest honey with other by products.
If we can increase crop yield by 10% or so on your crop, what would that be worth to you? Contact us now for more info!
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