Comprehensive Review on Improved Honey Production: Techniques, Challenges, Opportunities, and Future Prospects in Africa

Etsemeskel Tadele^*Destaw WorkuTeshager MulunehYtayh AyanaMelese Tirfie

• Injibara University, Injibara, Ethiopia

Beekeeping production in Africa is importance for economic development, food security, environmental conservation, and social well-being. It is important for employment, income generation, plant pollination, and ecological awareness, medication and nutrition. The objective of this review explores to the improvement of honey production, navigating the causes that reduces honey production, techniques to optimize honey production, opportunities, and future prospects in the African. The improved honey production in Africa various economic, social, and environmental limits that reduces its production. The cause of low honey production includes traditional beekeeping system, inadequate management, and technical gaps, environment, and lack of technological knowledge, inadequate training, and market constraints, which collectively impede producer's ability to improve their honey productivity. Techniques to improved honey production are improving beekeeping management system, enhancing forage resources, post-harvest and value addition, and capacity building and extension services. Improved honey production opportunities, including the expansion of beekeeping as an agribusiness, the availability of rich floral diversity to high-quality honey, the adoption of modern beekeeping technologies, resilience to climate change with pollination services, access to both local and export markets, and the incorporation of digital and mobile innovations in beekeeping practices. By strengthening honey production through investment in modern beekeeping practices system, enhancing cooperative structures, improving market access, and supporting policy frameworks, stakeholders possess the capacity to collectively transform the honey sector into a sustainable and resilient industry.