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Available courses

APICULTURE PRODUCTION

BEE KEEPING (APICULTURE)
Bees are social insects and therefore live in colonies consisting of about 60,000 bees
Importance of Bee keeping
 Provide honey
 Provide wax and honey sold to get income
 Require little capital and land to keep
 Bees help in cross pollination
Types of bees
1. African wild bee
2. European bee
1. African wild bee
Characteristics African wild bee
 Well adapted to local weather conditions/high temperatures
 Can fly for long distances /hardy
 Fairly resistant to diseases e.g. acarive and American foul brood disease
 More active in protection and search for food
 Its vicious if mishandled
2. The European honey bee
Characteristics the European honey bee
 They are more gentle/docile
 Less active and vicious
 Susceptible to diseases that attack bees
 Not well adapted to local weather conditions
Life cycle of a bee
In the development of bees, the following takes:
 Fertilized queen moves from one cell to another laying eggs in each cell
 In the warmth and moisture generated by a cluster of worker bees, the eggs hatch after 3
days
 Larva are fed by nurse bees on special pulp, then on a mixture of pollen and honey
 Each larva spins a cocoon and after two days, moults into pupa
 The pupa becomes a young bee in ten days and emerges from the cocoon

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY

The purpose of the course is to provide learners with critical knowledge concerning various animals production, welfare and healthy. In addition, learners get valid knowledge on management of animals.