Studies on the Assessment of Honey Production Practice and Constraints of Honey Production in the Wachalee District Oromia Regional State North Shoa
| dc.contributor.advisor | Getu, Emana (Professor) | |
| dc.contributor.author | Lemma, Berhanu | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2021-12-01T08:54:34Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-11-09T04:21:39Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2021-12-01T08:54:34Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-11-09T04:21:39Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2021-10-15 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The most well-known and utilized harvestable products from honey bees is honey. Honey is the sweets substance produced by honeybees from the nectar of blossoms or from secretions on living plants, which the bees collect, transforms and store in honey combs. The study was conducted in Wachalee district, North Shoa Zone, Oromia region to studies on the constraints of honey production. The district was stratified into three Agro-Ecologies and stratified random sampling procedure was followed to select the peasant association on their agro-ecological zones. A total of 90 respondents (15 beekeepers per kebeles) from the three agro-ecologies were selected by using simple random sampling techniques was used to select respondents among society for questioner prepared. Both primary and secondary data collection methods were used for this research and the primary data were collected by using direct investigation of researcher to observe the status of honeybee colony and per house holding society. The researcher uses graphs and tables to present the survey data and analysis was made by mathematical explain to situation as it is. Beekeeping in the study area is dominantly practiced by male and about 87.8% of interviewed households were married and the remaining 12.2% was single. Traditional, transitional and modern frame hives were the three types of honeybee production system in which 64.4% of the respondents use only traditional hive, 10% use traditional and transitional hive, 24.4% use traditional and modern hive and only 1.11% use traditional, transitional and modern frame hives. The average annual honey yields per hive per year from traditional beekeeping in mid-land is higher than the high land and low land. The average annual honey yields per hive from traditional, transitional and modern bee hive were 6.49kg, 10.47kg and 16.4kg respectively. The major constraints that affect the honeybee production in the Wachalee districts are: pest and predators mis-use of agro-chemicals and absconding of bees. The major pest and predator include: - ants, wax moth, spider, lizard, birds, mites and hamagots. To sustain the beekeeping activity there should be introducing affordable and appropriate beekeeping technologies with all accessories, strengthening the appropriate beekeeping management practices, and finally mobilizing women and beekeepers in to sub-sectors through training. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/123456789/29057 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Addis Ababa University | en_US |
| dc.subject | Honey | en_US |
| dc.subject | Honeybee | en_US |
| dc.subject | Beekeeping | en_US |
| dc.subject | Constraints | en_US |
| dc.subject | Wachalee District | en_US |
| dc.title | Studies on the Assessment of Honey Production Practice and Constraints of Honey Production in the Wachalee District Oromia Regional State North Shoa | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |