By Herve Millet | Project leader
Harvest time for honey: harvests for honey happen twice a year in Burkina Faso. In April for the large honeydew and in October for the small honeydew.
Type of hives: there are still traditional hives in the trees. These are not good for the environment, not good for the bees and not good for the taste of the honey. We provide modern or kenyan hives to the beekeepers .
Harvesting of raw honey: The honey coming out of the hive is a mix of wax and honey. You can see the alveolus on the pictures attached to this report. It takes at least one year between the swarming of the hives and the first harvest. The hives ditributed to women beekeepers via this project will not be harvested this time.
Conditionning of the raw honey: the honey is extracted from the wax alveolus using (cold) pressure.
Results of the recent large honeydew: beekeepers collected an average of 7kg of raw honey per hive. One liter of raw honey weighs 1.5 kg.
Water for bees: at most of the water wells of the villages you can see bees coming for water. There is no danger for the women and girls who are coming to pick up water.
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