(20 May 2024)
HZ KENYA BEES
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LENGTH: 7'41
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Kitui County, Kenya - 16 May 2024
1. Various of beehives in apiary with bees flying
2. Various of man spraying his maize crop with insecticides, bees foraging
3. Various of beekeepers doing daily inspection of beehives
4. SOUNDBITE (Kiswahili) Joshua Kimwele, Beekeeper in Kitui County:
“As other farmers continue to spray pesticides on their farms, they are finishing off the bees. It would be better if you must spray, do so in the evening or at night using a torch so that by morning, the potency of the chemical is low.”
5. Various of beekeepers in apiary
6. SOUNDBITE (Kiswahili) Joshua Kimwele, Beekeeper in Kitui County:
“People have invaded the forests and are cutting down the trees which are rich in nectar. So I would wish that all those cutting down the trees for charcoal burning be banned totally. Because if they cut down all the trees, and you know, if there are no bees, we are also extinct.”
7. Various of beehives with bees coming from and going to forage
8. SOUNDBITE (Kiswahili) Joshua Kimwele, Beekeeper in Kitui County:
“When COVID-19 came, it made us stay indoors. We had just harvested the honey but we had to abandon it since there was total movement restrictions. And in the middle of that, locusts invaded our land and ate all the trees, all the flowers, until all the trees died. So that time we went into total loss.”
9. Various of Kimwele serving honey to his guests
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Stephen Mbaya, Kitui County Government Official:
“The locusts ate all the crops, all the plants and all the shrubs. And this led to collapse of the bee colonies and farmers went at a loss. The beehives were left without bees, these farmers went into a very big serious loss. So as a county, we are working towards restoration of the lost glory. Making sure that we bring back our farmers to where they were. The invasion of locusts, the Corona that time, and that time we had also faced a serious drought. Therefore all this combined had devastating effects to our farmers and we want to restore their livelihoods by giving them beehives, training them, so that they may have better skills, so that they may get good food, have revenue, and the families be happy and multiply.”
11. Various of Kimwele serving honey to his guest
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Stephen Mbaya, Kitui County Government Official:
“Beekeeping and honey is a source of income. And I can tell you 1 kilogram of honey fetches around 800 to 1500 Kenyan shillings. This is an alternative to our farmers. It's an alternative to planting crops, the expenditure you incur when you put your beehive compared to the expenditure of keeping other livestock or crops, for bees, it's very minimal.”
13. Various of county government officials distributing Langstroth (vertically modular) beehives and educating famers on how they operate
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Timothy Wambua, Livestock production expert, Kitui County:
“We want to promote inclusion. We want to include women and youth in beekeeping. Traditionally in our area, beekeeping has been an activity undertaken by men, and mainly old men. Currently we want to promote women because with the Langstroth you can place them at a height where you don’t need to climb up into the trees.”
15. Various of county government officials educating famers on beekeeping
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Timothy Wambua, Livestock production expert, Kitui County:
17. Various of county government officials educating famers on beekeeping
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