摘要
<p style="text-align:justify;"> <span style="font-family:Verdana;">The present economic challenges in Nigeria call for a serious sustainable </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">environment-friendly agricultural enterprise with a great potential that</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> improves export earnings. It is our fervent believe that the contribution of the </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">apiculture sector to its sustainable human development and specifically</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> increases the income of beekeepers and traders of bee products through improved commercialization of quality bee products in Nigeria which will in turn lead to a drastic increase in the GDP of the nation. The overall goal of </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">the Nigeria Apiculture Value Chain (AVC) Development Program is to</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> contribute to an increase income of beekeepers and other actors on the AVC </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">through increase in production capacity, stimulate the efficiency and</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> competitiveness of the AVC products by improving standards, processing capacity so as to access higher value niche markets through Fairtrade Interna</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">tional (FLO) certification or organic certifications and to achieve a total</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> sales v</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">alue of over $5 million by 2035 (Sustainable Development Goal SDG)</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> target on Food Security. Apiculture provides highly desirable products such as </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">honey, comb/wax, pollen, propolis, bee venom, royal jelly, apilarnil and</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> apilanil prop, value added products and pollination services. It is of note to stress the need to urgently embrace the use of modern techniques in keeping honeybees for industrial development of Nigeria and also to enhance exportation of the products to earn growth in the Nigeria’s GDP by diversifying the monolithic economy that is presently based on crude oil exportation.</span> </p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"> <span style="font-family:Verdana;">The present economic challenges in Nigeria call for a serious sustainable </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">environment-friendly agricultural enterprise with a great potential that</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> improves export earnings. It is our fervent believe that the contribution of the </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">apiculture sector to its sustainable human development and specifically</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> increases the income of beekeepers and traders of bee products through improved commercialization of quality bee products in Nigeria which will in turn lead to a drastic increase in the GDP of the nation. The overall goal of </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">the Nigeria Apiculture Value Chain (AVC) Development Program is to</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> contribute to an increase income of beekeepers and other actors on the AVC </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">through increase in production capacity, stimulate the efficiency and</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> competitiveness of the AVC products by improving standards, processing capacity so as to access higher value niche markets through Fairtrade Interna</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">tional (FLO) certification or organic certifications and to achieve a total</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> sales v</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">alue of over $5 million by 2035 (Sustainable Development Goal SDG)</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> target on Food Security. Apiculture provides highly desirable products such as </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">honey, comb/wax, pollen, propolis, bee venom, royal jelly, apilarnil and</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> apilanil prop, value added products and pollination services. It is of note to stress the need to urgently embrace the use of modern techniques in keeping honeybees for industrial development of Nigeria and also to enhance exportation of the products to earn growth in the Nigeria’s GDP by diversifying the monolithic economy that is presently based on crude oil exportation.</span> </p>
