Feature: Kenyan farmers rearing stingless bees to boost income, stabilize ecosystems


  • World
  • Sunday, 29 May 2022

NAIROBI, May 28 (Xinhua) -- Mark Livaha is a middle-aged farmer from the western Kenyan county of Kakamega who has nostalgic memories of venturing into a dense forest near his ancestral village to look for wild honey, cherished for its nutritional and medicinal properties.

Livaha said that growing up near the dense Kakamega forest had nurtured his passion for bees, given the endless supply of honey the insects generated for his community.

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