Savannah Honey Advises On Contractual Beekeeping

Kenya is in dire need of honey. The local supply is not able to meet the demand. According to the CEO of Savannah Honey, Mr. Kyalo Maveke, the honey produced locally is only able to meet 20 percent of the demand.

To supplement the remaining 80 percent, Kenya is forced to import from other countries despite the fact that there is a huge potential for the country to satisfy herself. Mr. Kyalo Maveke also confirms that over 95 percent of all the bee pollen in Kenya, propolis, and bee venom used are all imported.

Beekeeping is one of the most lucrative ventures in Kenya. Unfortunately, the majority of Kenyans are not aware of how it is done and what is required of them. “There are people who have left their land idle when they can get millions of shillings out of it,” said Mr. Kyalo during an interview.

Did you know that a gram of bee venom is 7 times more costly than gold? Well, a gram of bee venom costs 8,000 shillings. At the same time, a kilo of royal jelly costs 42,000 shillings.

In Kenya, a kilogram of honey retails at least 600 shillings. Bee pollen goes for 6,800 shillings while propolis goes for 1,300 shillings. “Bees have one of the highest returns that one will ever get in any investment,” added Mr. Kyalo.

One of the leading beekeeping Companies in Africa, Savannah Honey has launched a subsidized national beekeeping promotion programme dubbed “Don’t let your land stay idle” targeting 7,000 clients across the country.

Through this programme the company shall:

1. Deliver and install Langstroth hives at a special price of kshs 5, 000 per hive instead of the normal price of kshs 6,500.
2. Provide technical support services including colony division, colony strengthening and requeening free of charge to our clients. To make this effective, the company has deployed apiarists across the country who can serve clients within 24 hours whenever need arises.
3. Manage the apiaries for the clients.
4. Provide the clients with a 5-year contract for the market of the Honey, bee pollen, wax, propolis and Bee Venom.

Speaking during the launch of the program at Savannah Honey beekeeping Centre, Utawala Nairobi,the  C.E.O of Savannah Honey Kyalo Maveke said that  Kenya’s potential in beekeeping has never been exploited  leading to Kenya importing around 80% of the honey consumed in the country and , over 95% of all Bee pollen, propolis and bee venom used in the country being imported.

Through this programme we shall enable our clients utilize their idle land enabling them earn extra income.

He encourages people to invest in beekeeping because it’s an investment that one can never go wrong if they check against the black ants and honey badgers. Again it’s an investment that doesn’t require any input and labour. It’s not time consuming and it has very high returns with honey now retailing at kshs 800 per kg, Bee pollen at kshs6,800 per kg,propolis  kshs  1,900 per kg and bee venom at ksh 4,000 per gram.

“As Savannah Honey, we are experts in beekeeping as well as apiary management. We will manage for you your bee farm, giving you more time to do other tasks,” said Mr. Kyalo.

You can contact Savannah Honey on; 0724052975,[email protected] or www.savannahhoney.org