Support apiculture

Dear Sir

Nowadays our country is involved in a variety of economic activities. Apiculture by using box-method can be one of the effective sectors of income due to its easy processing setup and young investors entrance.

Basically, in Bangladesh we have immense demand of honey around 2,500 tonnes annually and young investors are using this opportunity to make their utmost profit. Now we have a small amount of apiculture farmers of around 25,000 (1,000 are commercially active cultivators). Though it is a bright sector, we have only a few numbers of investors in this sector with a small amount of capital. Another bad news is that our honey keeping industries cannot meet their demand due to lack in our technology and management policy comparing to our neighbours. As a result, our economy is getting poor benefits gradually.
To eradicate this problem, the government should come forward as well as NGOs with new technology and easy term of loans. The government is the only way to boost up this business by making new policies and providing essential trainings to the farmers. If it can be done, there will be a good balance in market for both traditional businessmen and young entrepreneurs.

Mahadi Hassan
East West University