Officials\nhave blamed climate change and indiscriminate use of agrochemicals for the\nsharp decline in honey production to 25,000 tonnes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
About\n13,000 metric tonnes of honey are required to bridge the gap of the standard\nannual national consumption level of about 38, 000 metric tonnes, the officials\nsaid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They\nhave also blamed destruction of bee habitats as well as emerging pests and\ndiseases for low production.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIn\norder to reverse this trend, new and bold initiatives are required to achieve\nthe estimated annual production potential of 100,000 metric tonnes in the\ncountry,\u201d Livestock Principal Secretary Harry Kimutai said when he opened the\nNakuru County Apiculture Stakeholders Workshop on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mr\nKimutai observed that honey production has been on a steady decline in the last\nseveral years and urged farmers to be ardent in addressing the industry issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mr Kimutai\nsaid contribution of beekeeping to the national economy was estimated at Sh12\nbillion ($120 million) annually adding that bees contributed to food and\nnutrition security through pollination of crops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The workshop was organized for beekeepers, bee equipment manufacturers, honey processors and traders, researchers, students and staff from both the National and County governments \u201cto encourage public-private sector partnership in the bee keeping industry\u201d. Read more<\/a>…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Officials have blamed climate change and indiscriminate use of agrochemicals for the sharp decline in honey production to 25,000 tonnes. About 13,000 metric tonnes of honey are required to bridge…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8040,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[242,358,791],"class_list":["post-8039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news","tag-beekeeping","tag-climate-change","tag-honeybees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}