Fiji Beekeepers Association is looking for skilled beekeepers who are willing to mentor less experienced beekeepers for a one-year period beginning in January. Mentors will work side-by-side with their trainee(s) and teach them essential beekeeping skills. Teaching experience is not required. FBA is also looking for beginning beekeepers who are interested in receiving beekeeping mentoring.
Beekeepers are invited to a live ‘webinar’ on honey packaging and distribution.
Level 2 Bee Keeping Training offered at Cegu Valley Farm, Vanua Levu, Fiji
How the lives of wild honey bees offer vital lessons for saving the world’s managed bee colonies
Fiji Beekeepers Association is assisting Fiji’s beekeepers improve their honeybee genetic stock and increase honey production by providing quality queen bees at a subsidized price from reliable queen breeders.
Part 2 of our series featuring the Fiji Beekeepers Association sees us traveling to Tavua for a Beekeeping Symposium with Zainal Khan, where he talks about Destructive Bee Diseases like American Foulbrood Disease and Varroa Jacobsoni
We’re heading to the interiors of Ba to see his Bee farm and learn how to introduce a Queen bee to a new hive and see how Nilesh extracts honey at his own extraction house
It is most common for beekeepers in Fiji
to acquire their first beehives by buying
hives that are already assembled and
contain bees.
Fiji’s World Bee Day winning photo is featured on the cover of the current issue of Bees for Development Journal, a worldwide magazine.
Beekeeping can be a fascinating hobby, a profitable sideline, or a full-time occupation. You may want to keep bees for the delicious fresh honey they produce, for the benefits of their valuable services as pollinators, or perhaps simply for the enjoyment of learning more about one of nature’s most interesting insects.
