Beekeeping can earn Nigeria multi-million dollars annually —Agric official

Beekeeping 

Beekeeping if harnessed properly is capable of boosting Nigeria’s economy to the tune of multi-million dollars as profit annually.


A Director and Chief Veterinary Officer (CVO) at the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr. Dooshima Kwange, made the revelation in Abuja, recently.

Kwange, who described bee keeping as a highly lucrative agribusiness in Nigeria noted that investing in the bee industry would help earn Nigeria huge assets than crude oil.

According to her, “The market worldwide is huge, almost 2 billion dollars annually and we are really not tapping into it because we have not paid attention to this industry.

She hinted that there would be an international conference in Abuja with the theme, “Beekeeping Industry for Sustainable Development, Wealth Creation and Economic Diversification” by September 20th, 2018.

According to her, the Expo is an intercultural and intercontinental honey show run by an NGO based in Kampala, Uganda, usually held in conjunction with countries to advance the beekeeping industry by promoting the ministry of agriculture and other shareholders.

The director added that the government was also trying to break into other sectors of the economy, majorly in agriculture, and divert from oil saying, the beauty of the industry is that it is not as extravagant as other ventures.

Kwange who stated that the ministry was open to collaboration with foreign partners pleaded with Nigerians to embrace beekeeping for its economic and diverse benefits.