Kigezi region where BMCT operates is one of the areas where bee keeping is restricted besides West nile and Teso. Beekeeping has been a part of agriculture programming at BMCT since 2016. Most of our farmers use the traditional basket or hollowed-log hives with only 3 farmers trying to adapt the Kenya Top Bar (KTB) hives.
Two years of steady effort on the part of our field staff, the apiary beneficiaries are beginning to see good results as the project has thrived to honey production. One of our model Apiary farmer Mr. Silver Baguma of Kashasha Parish received 46 hives from BMCT in 2016. He sells some of his honey to BMCT office for staff consumption.
We have hopes of training more farmers to manage the KTB hives which have more advantages over the local hives. We also plan to scale up the business angel of bee keeping through the FFS groups.