ABOUT WAMPITI BEEKEEPERS ASSOCIATION

 

Wampiti Beekeepers Association 

(WBA)

Wampiti Beekeepers Association is located in Nakasongola District, Wabinyonyi Sub-County Wantabya (Kizongo LC1).

WBA was established in Oct 2010 after a general meeting which sat on 3^rd June 2010 for all people from Wampiti, Wantabya, Kizongo, Kalyakoti, Kikonge and Kalungu who were interested in beekeeping and who wished to start keeping bees.

This is a multiplication stand. (will be explained further in the photo gallery).

On 3^rd June 2010, the community members who attended the meeting gave birth to WAMPITI BEEKEEPERS ASSOCIATION (WBA) and 37 members were registered as members of the association. The association started to operate officially in October 2010.Today, the Association over 60 registered members who are actively keeping bees on their farm.

This Log Hive is at Mr. Muganga David's farm. It is estimated to have lasted for 32 years.

WBA has a committee of 5 members i.e. 
Chairman, Secretary, Treasurer, Marketing Manager and Mobilizer.

ACHIEVEMENTS OF WBA

• Members of WBA have adopted new methods of bee keeping like intensive caring, colony multiplication and many others.
• All members are aware of the importance of keeping bees like for pollination, source of income, food (honey) and others.
• Local resources are now utilized, wood is used for making hives, and vacant land is used for keeping bees.
• Teamwork is realized among members since most of the agriculture work is done as a group.
• Members have resorted to commercial beekeeping methods and Top bars are intensively used.

Isaac and Paul constructing a Topbar hive from the scrap wood bought from newly constructed houses.

One of the two smokers. They were welded up to the standard.

PROBLEMS FACED BY THE PROJECT

• Limited literature especially bee keeping books, CDs and Charts.
• A lot of communities far from the project area also need training yet the resources are limited.
• Lack of funds. Most of the members are peasant farmers they can't buy professional gears like gloves, suits, veils, smokers and extractors.
• In areas where bees are endangered, WBA doesn't have hives to install in such areas to act as demos for the community members. This very important because such community members they completely don't know the art of beekeeping practice.

However other challenges have been dealt with like;

-  We established a routine checkup on every member’s apiary and we give advise and keep records.

-  We have concentrated on constructing our own Top bar Hives from the scrap wood that we buy from newly constructed houses in the town. This has helped members to save because at the beginning, we bought Top bar hives which was expensive for us.

-   We have tried very much to use literature on bee keeping from the internet, however, more formal and up to date literature is needed.

 

About WBA

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Wampiti Beekeepers Association 

(WBA)

Wampiti Beekeepers Association is located in Nakasongola District, Wabinyonyi Sub-County Wantabya (Kizongo LC1).

WBA was established in Oct 2010 after a general meeting which sat on 3^rd June 2010 for all people from Wampiti, Wantabya, Kizongo, Kalyakoti, Kikonge and Kalungu who were interested in beekeeping and who wished to start keeping bees.

This is a multiplication stand. (will be explained further in the photo gallery).

On 3^rd June 2010, the community members who attended the meeting gave birth to WAMPITI BEEKEEPERS ASSOCIATION (WBA) and 37 members were registered as members of the association. The association started to operate officially in October 2010.Today, the Association over 60 registered members who are actively keeping bees on their farm.

This Log Hive is at Mr. Muganga David's farm. It is estimated to have lasted for 32 years.

WBA has a committee of 5 members i.e. 
Chairman, Secretary, Treasurer, Marketing Manager and Mobilizer.

ACHIEVEMENTS OF WBA

• Members of WBA have adopted new methods of bee keeping like intensive caring, colony multiplication and many others.
• All members are aware of the importance of keeping bees like for pollination, source of income, food (honey) and others.
• Local resources are now utilized, wood is used for making hives, and vacant land is used for keeping bees.
• Teamwork is realized among members since most of the agriculture work is done as a group.
• Members have resorted to commercial beekeeping methods and Top bars are intensively used.

Isaac and Paul constructing a Topbar hive from the scrap wood bought from newly constructed houses.

One of the two smokers. They were welded up to the standard.

PROBLEMS FACED BY THE PROJECT

• Limited literature especially bee keeping books, CDs and Charts.
• A lot of communities far from the project area also need training yet the resources are limited.
• Lack of funds. Most of the members are peasant farmers they can't buy professional gears like gloves, suits, veils, smokers and extractors.
• In areas where bees are endangered, WBA doesn't have hives to install in such areas to act as demos for the community members. This very important because such community members they completely don't know the art of beekeeping practice.

However other challenges have been dealt with like;

-  We established a routine checkup on every member’s apiary and we give advise and keep records.

-  We have concentrated on constructing our own Top bar Hives from the scrap wood that we buy from newly constructed houses in the town. This has helped members to save because at the beginning, we bought Top bar hives which was expensive for us.

-   We have tried very much to use literature on bee keeping from the internet, however, more formal and up to date literature is needed.