Farm-Africa is working with raffia and beekeeping projects in an attempt to augment sources of income outside the forest.
Likewise, activities like beekeeping and fruit production both provide a profitable incentive for farmers to make a long-term investment in the forest around them.
Urban eco-warriors found beekeeping an appealing practical outlet for their angst.
That income could be boosted by adding more crops, such as other fruits and jarina seeds, which look and feel like ivory, and beekeeping.
See also beekeeping, dairy farming.
With additional money from the Owens Foundation, he established beekeeping and fish-farming projects, among other new endeavours.
Draft horses are bred, beekeeping is widespread, and some raising of sheep, goats, cattle, and pigs is carried on.
For more detailed information on honeybees, their colonies, and diseases, see the articles beekeeping and colony collapse disorder.
In 2008 Queen Latifah starred in The Secret Life of Bees, a drama about a white girl taken in by a family of beekeeping African American women in 1960s-era South Carolina.
The stony, bare eastern part of the island contrasts with the western and central parts, in which Mediterranean fruits, viticulture, animal husbandry, and beekeeping support the population.
Industries consist of rice and dal (pigeon pea) milling, sawmilling, bone-meal manufacturing, bidi (cigarette) making, beekeeping, and furniture making.
