Honey value Chain Development Project

Beekeeping Trainings Progress Report

July to October 2013

Date of submission: 11, December, 2013

Submitted by

Kashif Khan

Community Master Trainer and Stake Holder

Under the USAID Pakistan Entrepreneur

Submitted to:

Ma’am Humera Shah

HUJRA Village Support Organization

Near Allah-o- Akbar Masjid, Saidu Sharif, Swat, Khyber

Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

Phone: +92-946-726799, Fax: +92-946-729016

Email: hujraswat@yahoo.com, Info@hujra.org

Website: www.hujra.org

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Acknowledgment:

I have taken efforts in progress report. However, it would not have been possible without the kind support and help of many individuals and organizations. I would like to extend my sincere thanks to all of them.

I am highly grateful to HUJRA (VSO) for their guidance and constant supervision as well as for providing necessary information regarding the project & also for their support in completing the progress report of the Honey Value Chain Development Project.

I would like to express my gratitude towards my parents and member of Hujra organization for their kind co-operation and encouragement which help me in completion of this progress report.

I would like to express my special gratitude and thanks to organization persons for giving me such attention and time.

My thanks and appreciations also go to my colleague in developing the report and people who have willingly helped me out with their abilities.

A special thanks to Ma’am Humera Shah who give me this opportunity for making the progress report of Honey Value Chain Development Project.

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Table of Contents

Summary………………………………………………………………………….……… 4

Introduction………………………………………………………………………….... 5

Objectives of training……………………………………………………..………. 6

Methodology…………………………………………………………………..……… 7

I)Pre-evaluation………………………………….……………….………. 7

II)Post-evaluation………………………………………………….……… 7

Process of techniques………………………………………………………..……. 8

Day 1…………………………………………………………………….……… 8

Day 2………………………………………………………….………………… 8

Day 3………………………………………………………….………………… 9

Feedback Summary…………………………………………………..……………. 10

Conclusion………………………………………………………………..……………. 10

Recommendations…………………………………………….…………………. 10

Annexes ……………………………………………….……………….. 11

(A) Detail of UC’s List

(B) ToRs

(C &D) Detail Lists Trainees

(E) Selected Picture of Training

Biblography …………………………………………………………..………………. 16

Glossary ……………………………………………………………….……………….. 17

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Summary:

The HUJRA Organization is implementing the Honey Value Chain project in Distract Swat under the USAID Pakistan Entrepreneur program. The aim of the project is to increase the income of Beekeepers, in ten Union Councils of Distract Swat through the introduction of advance beekeeping techniques and market linkages and to enable males beekeepers to generate

income and sustained their economic development. The purpose of the modern beekeeping

training to increase the productivity of the beekeepers and to improve their production efficiency. Mostly the project focuses on the Cerana beekeepers which is known is Swati bee. The trainings are conducting for three days. The trainings aware the people about the decrease of the production of honey and build the capacity of the beekeepers. Eleven trainings are cover in six Union Councils and two hundred thirteen (213) male beekeepers are trained during July to October 2013.

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Introduction:

The word “HUJRA” is taken from Pakhton traditional space, which means a traditional common space of a Pakhton Society, which is an important traditional social institution for collective decision-making, conflict resolution, information sharing and social development. Hujra organization is non-profit able, non-political, non-ethnic and development oriented local organization working in KPK and FATA of Pakistan. Honey value Chain Development Project is of the project of HJARA organization, seeking to substantially raise incomes of Beekeepers of ten Union Council of Swat (Shin, Ser Teligram, Janu Chamtali, Miandam, Fatehpur, Darmai, Sakhra, Gualerai, Beha and Beshigram).

Beekeeping, the practice of artificially maintaining honey Bee colonies is one of the older forms of food production. Formally known as apiculture, beekeeping is thought to have been practiced as early as 13,000 BC. The ancient Egyptians were particularly skilled in the art of beekeeping. Although most people associated with beekeeping exclusively with collection of honey, there are many other ways modern beekeepers can earn an income from the colonies for beeswax, propullus, royal jelly, pollens, which are of immense importance.

The importance of honey as medicine is also clear from Holly Quraan and Hadith. In Pakistan beekeeping is also popular buisness. In Swat, beekeeping is also practicining from years but due to lack of eduaction and skill the production of beekeeping is not very fruitful. Mostly men used traditional mud hives which are not useful and cause low production.

Honey value chain development project is one of the main projects of the HUJRA organization which work for local beekeepers for the purpose to build their capacities regrading modern beekeeping to increase honey production and to develop their marketing linkages.

The report covers eleven trainings imported during July to October 2013 shown in the annex (A).

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Objectives of Trainings:

To motivate male beekeepers for the use of modern techniques regarding beekeeping to get more benefits.

To enable males beekeepers to generate income and sustained their economic development.

To facilitate male beekeepers to adopt modern Langstroth boxes instead of traditional mud hive to get more honey production.

To build capacity of the community for understaking socio-economic development in honey bee with the conservation of their natural resources.

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Methodalogy:

Local language, Pashto was used for the delivery of training session. Training approach method was intercative with the paritcipants. Topics were thought with the help of charts, multimedia and practical demonstraion. Group exercies and dicussions were also followed.

(I) Pre-evaluation:

In pre-evaluation, trainers appered totally unaware about modern beekeeping. They were not aware about honeybee diseases, pests, parasites and their control measures, even few of them also did not known about Honey Bee Colony Organization like Queen, Workers and Drones. They were using traditonal mud hives and did not know regarding other beekeeping products likee Pollens, bee wax, propolus, royal jelly etc. They also did not know about the reasons of swarming and absconding.

(II) Post evaluation:

During post evaluation, trainers came to know a lot of knowledge regarding modern Beekeeping, honey bees diseases, parasites, pests and their control. Seasonal management of beekeeping, control of bees swarming, absconding. They have also know about beekeeping products and their benefits. They were willing to make modern lingstroth boxes for the purpose to get more production.

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Process and techniques:

Each training was completed in three days.

Day 1

On first day the following topics thought in detail.

Registration of the participations. Recitation of the Holly Quran. Introduction, Objectives and expectation of training. Introduction to beekeeping in rural areas and its effects on agricultural site,

importance, status and challenges of beekeeping. Bee types (Apis cerana, Apis mallifra, Apis dorsata) characteristics, colony

organization(Queen, Drones, Workers) Life cycle ( Egg, larva, pupa, complete bee) morphology ( head , neck, abdomen) and work division ( internal bees, nurse bees, house bees, external bees).

Modern beekeeping equipments (lings troth box, bee veil, hive tool, queen cage, gloves, uniform, smoker, uncapping tool etc).

Bee flora in Pakistan with special reference in SWAT (cannabis sativa, hibiscus cannabinus, corissa opeca, mantha langifolia, eucalyptus spp, barberis, plectranthus rugosus etc.

Day 2

Recitation of the Holy Quran. Review of the previous day work. Honey bees diseases (American faual brood, European faual brood, Sac broad,

Chalk brood, nosema apis, paralysis of bees, dysentery, death from cold, and warm season, death from pesticides, diagnosis symptoms and control.

Bee parasites, pests, predators and their management. Seasonal management of honey colonies (spring, summer, off summer, autumn,

winter). Honey and its type’s compositions and uses.

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Day 3

Recitation of the Holy Quran. Review of the previous day work. Beekeeping products (bee wax, royal jelly, pollen, propolis, bee venum). Transfer of Apis cerana from traditional bee hives to modern bee hives because of

that we examine easily the bee hives and its medication and giving food. Extraction and labeling of honey. Honey value chain and market management. Action plan evaluation and certificates distribution.

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Feedback Summary:

Participants were satisfied with the trainings, trainers and the prevailing environment of the training. They shared that during this training they got a lot of information about modern beekeeping especially honey bee diseases and their control measurement. Few of trainers also asked for provide him pollen trap for the collection of pollen and asked another training of Queen rearing, collection of royal jelly and the uses of royal jelly and modern bee boxes to adopt Cerana bee to modern bee hive and some participant asked that to provide him bee comb sheet for Cerana.

Conclusion:

The series of three days capacity building on beekeeping proved very productive the participants were made realized how beekeeping play major role in income generating. The extra economic contribution of bee keeping was made brighten in the mind of participants. The trainers took great interest in attending the training and in acquiring the skills and knowledge about modern beekeeping. It is hoped that these training will give positive result in future.

Recommendations:

The three day trainings are too much less which are not covers the all training agenda we may have to increase the days for the trainings

Need national exposure visits to different bee forms Stakeholder meetings for coordination with each others Need modern training for beekeepers with the help of PhD’s Apiculture

Consultants Need monitoring and evaluation visits to inspect the project activities and

implementation mechanism Sales and marketing activates Training for quality standards, storage techniques, grading, packaging types and

marketing of honey

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Annexure:

Annex (A)

The report covers eleven trainings imported during July to October 2013

The following is the list of Training and beekeepers trainied in different UC’s of distract SWAT:

S.No Village UC Name Groups Trained Date

1 Ichkanay Skahra Male 16 24- 26 Jully

2 Babu Jano Chamtaly Male 22 20-22 August

3 New Chail Bashigram Male 28 29-31 August

4 Charray Sakhra Male 17 04-06 September

5 Shin Shin Male 16 09-11 September

6 Bar Lalko Sakhra Male 16 19-21 September

7 Sahn Koo Bashigram Male 26 23-25 September

8 Kolakarin Miandam Male 16 26-28 September

9 Darmai Darmai Male 20 07-09 October

10 Bati Band Bashigram Male 21 10-12 October

11Miandam

AdoMiandam Male 15 20-22 November

Total 11 06 11 213 July to November

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Annex (B)

TERMS OF REFRENCE (TOR)

Mr. Kashif Khan is the Stakeholder and Master trainer for Capacity building of beekeepers under USAID Pakistan Entrepreneurs funded Honey Value Chain Development Project.

The community Master Trainer has to fulfill the following obligations:

General ToRs for Beekeeping Training Community Master Trainer

Impart training on advance beekeeping covering three days with the following topics covered.i) Scientific/ Modern beekeepingii) Honeybees and their biologyiii) Orientation to Modern beekeeping equipments iv) Seasonal management of honey bee colonies ( swarming and its

control)v) Diseases, parasitic mites, pests and predators of honey bees

diagnosis and their integrated managementvi) Supplement feedingvii) Beekeeping as income generation activity viii) Bee products of beekeepingix) Wax processing techniques x) Types of honey and its composition

Prepare training handouts for the participants Write and submit training report along with attendance sheet and feedback

forms

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Annex (C)

Detail Lists of Trainees

Village Ichkany Village Baboo Village Charry

UC Sakhra UC Jano Chamtaly UC Sakhra

S.no Name S.no Name S.no Name1 Khalid Khan 1 Amal Khan 1 Saeedullah2 Khurshed Iqbal 2 Akhtar Ali 2 Fateh Khan3 Saeed Mrgan 3 Ali Dost 3 Fazal Karim4 Momen Khan 4 Rasool Khan 4 Khan Zada5 Amjad Ali 5 Razi Mand 5 Habibullah6 Razal Rahim 6 Bakht Sher 6 Abdullah7 Ayaz Khan 7 SheerMuhammad 7 M. Nisar8 Sardar Ali 8 Sultaneroom 8 Zain9 Pervez Bacha 9 Aurang Zeb 9 Ahmad Khan10 Mian saeed 10 Ajab Khan 10 Bacha Zada11 Gull Zada 11 Raham Dal 11 Ziaullah12 Fazal Zada 12 M.tahir 12 Abdurashed13 Fazal Subhan 13 Hakam 13 Barkht sheer14 Jahan Baz 14 Afzal 14 Peer zada15 Tausif 15 M. kamal 15 Itbar Khan16 Umar Khitab 16 Khona gul 16 Anayat17 Ahmad Zada 17 Abdurraoof 17 Qareeb-urrehman18 Usman Ali 18 Aqal Zahir

19 Saba Khan20 Bakht gull21 Umar Gull22 Mehboob Khan

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Annex (D)

Detail Lists of Trainees

Village Shin Village Bar-Lalko Village New Chail

UC Shin UC Sakhra Bashigram

S.no Name S.no Name S.no Name1 M. Ahmad 1 Noor Muhammad 1 Bakht biland2 Rahman Gull 2 Mubarak Khan 2 Qasim Jan3 Habibullah 3 Abdulhaq 3 Kareem Bacha4 M. Shereen 4 Fazal Khitab 4 Sadullah5 Gauhar Ali 5 Zafar ali 5 Gul Biland6 Toor Khan 6 Tahirullah 6 Sarfaraz7 Bahar Malk 7 M. Hallem 7 M. Saleem8 Bakht Zamin 8 Khan Zada 8 Gull Khan9 Usman Ali 9 Khair Muhammad 9 Jamsheed10 Saeed Mehmood 10 M. Hayat 10 Noor Khan

11 Abdul Ghapoor 11 Bakht Taj12 Sultanroom 12 M. Quresh13 Ihsanullah14 Mubarak Shah

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Annex (E):

Selected Picture of Trainings

Bibliography:

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1)1)

The format is taken from the HUJRA Organization Office.

2) Training agenda is given by the Project Manger Tanveer Hussain.3) Information about history of bees and beekeeping is taken from Noor Islam

Apiculture expert.4) Picture is taken from Sikindar photographer.5) Feedback is taken from the training participants.6) Lists of trained beekeeper are taken from Safiullah Social-mobilizer.

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Glossary:

Entrepreneur: Capitalist, Industrialist

Sustained: continual, nonstop

Cerana: A type of bee, which is known SWATI Bees

Beeswax, propullus, royal jelly, pollens: types of production of honeybees

Immense: huge, vast

Langstroth boxes: A type of box for bees

Conservation: protection, management

Drones: male in bee colony

Absconding: run away, disapperance

Swarming: spilling over, abundant

Diagnosis: identification

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Assignment has been submitted to fulfill the requirements of subject “Business report writing

skills”

Institute of Economics, Social and Development Studies

University of Swat

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