“This project was started by my father, then I joined him. When he started, I realized that he was getting some benefit out of it. So, I got motivated. I have now been doing this with him for the last eight years.” The Life as Beekeeper Who belongs to your family / who is living …
“I started this bee keeping when I was still a small boy. We were using local materials. But by around 2006 the President, Mr. Museveni started talking a lot about bee keeping and fruit farming. I listened to the talk shows and I straight away started doing this as a project. Then we joined the …
“I have a brother who encouraged me to start bee keeping using the local. It was more like a hobby for children that look after animals. When you are out there grazing the animals, you talk about different things. So, I picked interest in bee keeping. When we harvested it the first time, I got …
“In fact I realized there is money in honey. It can give you good income. So, that motivated me to go into bee keeping. Here we largely do cultivation. And you could plant cassava but it takes so long. Other crops equally don’t do well. So, I find bee keeping easier.” The Life as Beekeeper …
“I first learnt about bee keeping at school as an income generating activity. After I dropped out of school, I tried to raise money from cultivating some crops, but as you can see, this area is rocky and the harvests were not very good. Then I decided to start this enterprise. My first harvest was …