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Beekeeping Case Study

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This case study is a social enterprise named as Honey Care Africa. The enterprise partnerships with the small farmers of East Africa. The purpose of the enterprise is to make the economy strong and strengthen the incomes of African’s family. This could be done only by adopting sustainable beekeeping. It also tells that they have made their setup since 2001 and operating in Kenya and Tanzania. The case study is the picture of farmers who faced different obstacles related to financing and latest equipment. The story does not end here but also it discusses problems like government extension service and issues related to market are also the part of the analysis. It described the idea of Jiwa’s in a beautiful way and it was a worth million idea …show more content…

It was due to many reasons. Such as, log hives were used and on the other hand remuneration paid to farmers were very low and they get demotivated from it. The government-owned parastatals had controlled the system in a monopolistic way and the farmers got their payments very late and because of this, the business model faced challenges. There were corruption and mismanagement observed in the system that results into the failure of the business. The middle-level brokers involved in the procedure enjoyed the entire benefit and this chain of intermediaries showed the reason of farmers’ …show more content…

Supply of beekeeping and publicity in terms of public relations has played the vital role in raising the entire setup. The win-win model proposed by Jiwa has boomed the world and the third partner in the model are the rural communities that include farmers and they were the main target to be the key beneficiaries of this initiative. Credit facilities to farmers were one of the benefits given to attract them towards Honey Care and through this opportunity; they have started trusting someone after facing many

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