Membership & Services
Services
Capacity building (beekeeper, investors, experts and others)
Access to market information and linkage (national international)
Access to different trade fair, conference and other
Access to manuals, guideline, booklet
Access to association digital newsletter
Facilitating support from GOV and NGO
Membership
The association has the following three categories of members:-
- Beekeepers and input suppliers
- Processor, traders and exporters of bee product
- Apiculture professionals
Criteria for members
1. Beekeepers and input suppliers
Model Beekeepers
- Minimum 50 bee colonies in modern and transitional beehives
- Trained on modern beekeeping system
- Membership fee ETB 100 and Annual fee ETB 1000
Beekeeping Enterprise
- Registered enterprise
- Minimum 100 bee colonies in modern and transitional beehives
- Honey production of 1000 kg per year
- Membership fee ETB 100 and Annual fee ETB 1000
Beekeepers cooperatives
- Legally registered as honey producer cooperatives
- Supply minimum 5000kg honey annually
- Membership fee ETB 300 and Annual fee ETB 3000
Input supplier
- Local input producers (hives, protective cloth, beekeeping accessories and others)
- Importer and distributor of beekeeping inputs (protective cloth, beekeeping accessories and others)
- Membership fee ETB 500 and Annual fee ETB 5000
10,2. Processor, traders and exporters of bee product
Honey and beeswax processor and exporter private companies and union
- Own processing facility or rent the facility
- Enter export market
- Membership fee ETB 1000 and Annual fee ETB 15,000
Honey and beeswax processor and supply for local market
- Own processing facility or rent the facility
- Supply for local market
- Membership fee ETB 500 and Annual fee ETB 10,000
Small and Medium Enterprise in honey and beeswax business
- Registered and has a business license
- Start supply on local market (crude/processed)
- Membership fee ETB 500 and Annual fee ETB 5000
13. Apiculture Professionals
- Minimum diploma holder and has beekeeping training
- Apiculture researchers and technical assistance
- University instructors (Apiculture)
- Apiculture experts and technicians
- Membership fee ETB 100 and Annual fee ETB 1000