Entrepreneurship Zone: 19 June 2023 :: Capitalising on northern Uganda’s honey potential

Mon Jun 19 03:48:43 CAT 2023

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Entrepreneurship Zone: 19 June 2023 ::  Capitalising on northern Uganda’s
honey potential

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I used to work in an office, and people would come to my place of work to
sell ‘West Nile honey’, named after the region I come from. I was interested
to see that my region was being used as a brand, and discovered that West
Nile is one of the top ranked regions in Uganda for the production of honey.

So, I decided that I would come back home, and start a company to serve my
community.

The product is in demand, both locally and internationally, and has
positive medicinal and food properties. We realised that there is strong
potential to produce it on a large scale.

However, many people in this region are only collecting honey in a
traditional way, as a hobby. We decided to give farmers guidance, and
provide them with the necessary skills because before, they were working
without any formal support; no-one was willing to invest in supporting them
to improve the quality of their honey.

Today, we’re working with over 1,700 farmers, who harvest honey from
apiaries on their land. We provide a reliable market for them, which
encourages them to produce more.

We believe that if beekeeping is taken to a level where farmers understand
it as a as a business, it’s going to improve their livelihoods. When we
started the business in 2015, a kilo of honey sold for around 3,500 Ugandan
shillings. Today it’s about 7,000 shillings. This has motivated many farmers
to go into beekeeping.

Now they can afford basic necessities, and they don’t have to worry about
going hungry. They can buy goats and other animals, and pay their children’s
school fees. Some have even been able to acquire property. Beekeeping is
changing their lives.

Our vision was to be a market leader in the sale of sustainable beehive
products in the Great Lakes region, and to sell globally. Our products are
now meeting international standards, and are being accepted in foreign
markets.

We’re trying to build up a dedicated management team, and many of them are
young people. We’re getting help from a programme run by the Food and
Agriculture Organisation (FAO), which is addressing the attitude of youth
towards agriculture, and how they can be motivated to embrace agriculture as
a source of employment.

The young people we are interacting with, are beginning to realise that
they have a big part to play in national development. So, while we want to
make a profit, we also have a social aspect to what we do.

Finance has been one of our biggest challenges. Because of a lack of
finance, much of the honey-making process have been done manually. However,
the UN Capital Development Fund (UNCDF), has enabled us to get funding from
the Uganda Development Bank, and improve part of our production process.

We are now using an electric honey press, and were able to acquire a
filtering machine to improve the quality of our product. We are able to
process about five tonnes of honey in a month, which is a very big jump in
capacity, and I’m sure that we will be able to grow that to about 15 tonnes.

Sam Aderobu, founder of Honey Pride. Photo by: UN News/ Hisae Kawamori    

Sam Aderubo, founder of Honey Pride – situated in Arua, northern Uganda –
outlines his business journey.

- howwemadeitinafrica

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