Beekeeping workshop part of regional apiculture drive

A beekeeping workshop, facilitated by the Guyana Apiculture Society and the Association of Caribbean Beekeeping Organisation was held yesterday at the Bel Air Diary farm, as part of a regional drive to promote apiculture.

In an effort to undertake projects geared toward the development of the apiculture enterprise in the Caribbean, the Association of the Caribbean Beekeeping Organisation has sought funding to aid these projects, according to the Government Information Agency (GINA). It noted that the Centre for the Development of Enterprise through which the funding was sought, has retained a consultant, Clive De Bruyn, to conduct diagnostic studies of the constraints faced by beekeepers in the Caribbean and that these diagnostic studies have taken the form of workshops across the region.

GINA said De Bruyn has been conducting these