Processing, Packaging and labelling of Honey and Beeswax

The goal of this book is to learn beekeepers and community in general on how they can increase income via improved processing and packaging of qualitied honey and beeswax. The study was carried at Busunzu village of Kibondo District, Tanzania. This goal was a result of implementing a project titled 'Development and improvement of processing and packaging of Honey and Beeswax. This project was formulated and implemented by beneficiaries following participatory community needs assessment exercise that was carried at Busunzu village. CNA revealed that, 70% of respondents said their need is to be trained on bee products processing where as 30% depicted that there need is to be trained on packaging of bee products. However, at the end of project duration, the goal of the project was realized positively as beekeepers are earning Tsh. 117,200/- per bucket that was sold at Tsh. 40,000/- in crude form before intervention, this is an income increase of 75%. The project is sustainable as market of bee products are continuing and positive impact was seen on money spending patterns for livelihoods improvement and project fits in the Tanzania & international policies to reduce poverty levels. von Salum, Seif