Digya Project

People living on the fringes of Digya National Park have access to rich natural resources, especially honey bees and forests. There are already established trade pathways for honey, people are familiar with bees, and the area is suitable for beekeeping. Honey hunters expressed huge interest in beekeeping but lack knowledge, experience, and means to begin – no tradition of using beehives in the area. This Project aims to turn honey hunters into beekeepers and to generate new revenues in order to improve their livelihoods. We are teaching people how to make simple, fixed-comb beehives,  manage the bees and harvest the honey which several communities in Afram Plains have welcomed. So far 620 people are keeping bees in over 20 communities. Over 4265 fixed-comb hives have been built and over 2503 established colonies. This project is a self-sustainable one that offers practical training in beekeeping skills and as an income generation activity for its beneficiaries.

More about this project is here.