Honey picking and beekeeping: providers of honey on the market of Uíge Municipality, in the North of Angola

Abstract

This article has the basis of the sustainability of the honey picking associated with the modern practice of beekeeping, providing honey on the market of the municipality of Uige. Therefore, there was a question of making an inventory of these use practices and the honey sector. The interviews organized with the players in the sector made it possible to build a necessary database. On this, 98 actors were subject to the interview based on a semi-structured questionnaire. For variables, women dominate men at 58%, the age group of 20 to 30 dominate the universe of actors in number with 34%. Traditional picking is the most practiced technique compared to beekeeping. Consequently, wild honey is most present on the local market. It is sold at 3 750,00 Kz against 7 500,00 Kz of that of beekeeping, little practiced. Due to the enthusiasm of its sale, honey currently takes the status of a resource capable of contributing to the reduction of poverty, if beekeeping techniques are wide popularization to replenish the local honey market produced ecologically to the detriment of picking, destructive bees and their housing by fire.