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Beekeepers get the 'BEST' help
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Beekeepers get the 'BEST' help
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Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation
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Beekeepers in Southern Belize who formed a cooperative in 1980 are now working together with BEST (Belize Enterprise for Sustained Technology) to improve production consistency. The Southern Beekeepers Cooperative Society Ltd was born as a solution to the marketing needs of subsistence farmers who had turned to beekeeping to increase family income. The cooperative now serves 115 beekeepers in purchasing equipment, processing and marketing their honey. However, low yields forced the cooperative to call in BEST in March 1986. Since then production has increased, membership swelled, and grants and loans have been received for expansion of hives and improvements to services. For more details, contact BEST 26 Nargusta Street Belmopan BELIZE Beekeepers in Southern Belize who formed a cooperative in 1980 are now working together with BEST (Belize Enterprise for Sustained Technology) to improve production consistency. The Southern Beekeepers Cooperative Society Ltd was born as a solution... |
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1988
2014-10-02T13:13:42Z 2014-10-02T13:13:42Z |
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News Item
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CTA. 1988. Beekeepers get the 'BEST' help. Spore 16. CTA, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
1011-0054 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/44899 http://collections.infocollections.org/ukedu/en/d/Jcta16e/ |
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en
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Spore, Spore 16
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Open Access
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Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation
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Spore
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