Kalomo council eye Bee keeping as money spinner

RURAL communities should embrace bee keeping as an alternative income generating venture, the local government in Kalomo district, Southern Province, has said. Council secretary Oswell Mpofu said communities should learn other income generating ventures and desist from indiscriminate cutting of trees for charcoal as a source of income for their households. Mr Mpofu was speaking […]

Kalomo council eye Bee keeping as money spinner
RURAL communities should embrace bee keeping as an alternative income generating venture, the local government in Kalomo district, Southern Province, has said. Council secretary Oswell Mpofu said communities should learn other income generating ventures and desist from indiscriminate cutting of trees for charcoal as a source of income for their households. Mr Mpofu was speaking when he officiated at a joint four-day bee-keeping training workshop for Kakuyu and Malilwe cooperatives in Mubanga area last weekend. “I urge you to take up other initiatives such as bee keeping as an alternative for income generating ventures. It is cost-effective and all you need is to keep the environment safe and harness the environment to realise the benefits of this project whose products such as honey and wax have a ready market,” Mr Mpofu said. And district forest officer Ray Mwansa has implored bee keeping cooperatives to have a sense of ownership for projects which Government and its cooperating partners have brought to their doorsteps. The bee keeping project for Malilwe and Kakuyu cooperatives in Naluja Ward of Kalomo district is a component of the Strengthening Climate Resilience in the Kafue Basin (SCRIKA) Project aimed at improving the welfare and livelihood of the targeted households in the catchment area. Projects in the SCRIKA component include bee keeping, goat rearing and solar powered boreholes for small-scale gardening in Bbilili, Omba and Naluja wards.