The history of Extra Mile beekeeping training projects
Modern technologies, if implemented correctly, will greatly impact Ghana’s honey production industry. Job creation and district economic growth will naturally follow.
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Two collaborating local chiefs setting out their first swarm-catching hives. Now in 2021 these two men own over 1,500 beehives.
Somanya 2006
hives for Somanya project
mango pollination project
Dodowa forest 2006
setting hives in Somanya
catcher boxes for project
Our impact on beekeeping in Ghana 2006~2019
Beehives in our area are practically disease free. Natural beekeeping and not tampering with bee size are the secrets. Untouched by man and his tinkering, pesticides are not required. The bee in our area share a balanced coexistence with Varroa parasites. For a full comprehensive outline on this subject contact “The Organic Beekeepers Association” USA.
Project manager with a couple of Kenya Top Bar beekeepers from Agomeda. Although we have knowledge and give advice on the KTP hive, our project focuses mainly on Langstroth technology.
colony transfer at pollination project
Bee building cell with beeswax
Beeswax foundation demonstration
colony transfer catcher to brood box
Beeswax production
4.8mm embosser in action 2013
Our impact on beekeeping in Ghana 2006~2019
Honey production to date is difficult to calculate due to there being more than 2,500 beekeepers in and around Nkwanta. And many of these beekeepers have their own private outlets. However statistics taken from one of the recipients of our training program, Viyada Enterprise, it would appear that the district, as of 2021 produces and processes upward of 165 metric tonnes annually.
This of course is an estimate, but nonetheless it represents huge growth from the beginning days of our project when we had to scratch and scrape to fill a 21 metric tonne shipping container for a European buyer.
Centrifuge demonstration
Jasikan project 2018
Nkwanta honey color variety
Accra Trade Fair 2017
2016 Students from The USA and Ghana
In the comb organic honey
Our impact on beekeeping in Ghana 2006~2020
Extra Mile West Africa works in collaboration with one of our beneficiaries. We have been working in partnership for over a decade. Mr. David Vivinyo owner and manager of Nkwanta’s only honey processing center and beekeeping school, kindly allows EMWA to use his facilities for our beekeeping training programs.
Our beneficiary in bulk honey room
Cashew project 2019
Brood inspection at night
Tanks of honey Nkwanta 2020
Cashew project 2019
Beekeeping handbook
Our impact on beekeeping in Ghana 2006~2019
Beehives in our area are practically disease free. Natural beekeeping; not tampering with bee size is the secret. Untouched by man and his tinkering pesticides are not required. The bee in our area share a balanced coexistence with Varroa parasites. For a full comprehensive outline on this subject contact “The Organic Beekeepers Association” USA.
Training begins 2017
Honeycomb in hive lid
Beehive management training
Bottling honeycomb from lid
