Beekeeper

Samuel

“My father was a bee keeper. When he harvested, as children, we would eat honey. That sweetness made me love bee keeping. Then I started putting my own hives besides his. I remember the first harvest from my own hives, my father said it should be sold. The honey was sold and my father used …

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Nelson

“What motivated me to start bee keeping is that I needed to get a source of income to help me address some of my economic challenges because it is hard relying on one source. So, I thought this was a good idea, since it was cheap to start. Then, we received some training about bee …

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Jackson

“Beekeeping was a hobby tome. I started it as a child. However, as I grew up that interest remained in me. But then, I got more motivated when I realized that there was money in it, although not very regularly. With some knowledge obtained from different sources about bee keeping, I was motivated to go …

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Quintino

“I was motivated because during NAADS programme, government gave us some hives as a group. I offered the site for the group, but still I was not interested. However, I had a friend who started keeping bees immediately while we abandoned the group site. This friend insisted that we keep bees. To prove his seriousness, …

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Alahai

“I was motivated because I got money – ugx.60,000 that time and I bought 2 goats. Then I paid something called PDF for my child at school. But I started with local hives. I first bought 10 local hives. Then I also bought 5 local pots to use as hive.  When I harvested and got …

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