Zambian Company proving bees can be big business
While headlines in the west sound the alarm on the mysterious decline of honeybee populations in Europe and North America, the business of bees is growing in Africa.
One company, Bee Sweet Ltd, has developed a scalable and replicable business model that is not only producing high quality, certified organic honey for domestic retail and export, but also saving trees and substantially increasing the incomes of rural farmers in Zambia.
“You’ve got to understand, what we’re doing is nuts,” Bee Sweet’s founding entrepreneur John Enright asserts. “We’ve made 50,000 beehives and we’re giving them all away – this is insane.”
Read the full article on Bee Sweet at How We Made it in Africa
One company, Bee Sweet Ltd, has developed a scalable and replicable business model that is not only producing high quality, certified organic honey for domestic retail and export, but also saving trees and substantially increasing the incomes of rural farmers in Zambia.
“You’ve got to understand, what we’re doing is nuts,” Bee Sweet’s founding entrepreneur John Enright asserts. “We’ve made 50,000 beehives and we’re giving them all away – this is insane.”
Read the full article on Bee Sweet at How We Made it in Africa