Table 6.
Types of hive owned, honeybee stay period, and disease occurrence in hives.
| S/N | Characters | Zones (Frequency/Percent) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bench-Sheko | Kaffa | West-Omo | Shaka | Average % | ||
| 1 | Hive types owned by farmers | |||||
| Traditional | 80 (65.0) | 67 (54.4) | 98 (80.3) | 76 (61.8) | 65 | |
| Transitional | 5 (4.1) | 18 (14.6) | 3 (2.4) | 11 (8.9) | 7.5 | |
| Modern | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0.0 (0.0) | 0 | |
| Traditional & modern | 12 (9.7) | 14 (11.3) | 10 (8.2) | 14 (11.4) | 10.1 | |
| Traditional & transitional | 18 (14.6) | 15 (12.6) | 8 (6.5) | 9 (7.3) | 10.2 | |
| All hive types | 8 (6.5) | 8 (6.5) | 3 (2.5) | 16 (13.0) | 7.2 | |
| 2 Long stay | ||||||
| Traditional | 26 (21.2) | 33 (26.8) | 30 (24.6) | 42 (34.1) | 26.6 | |
| Transitional | 19 (15.4) | 21 (17.1) | 21 (17.2) | 13 (10.6) | 15.1 | |
| Modern | 78 (63.4) | 69 (56.1) | 71 (58.1) | 68 (55.3) | 58.3 | |
| 3 Disease occurrence | ||||||
| Traditional | 61 (49.6) | 43 (34.9) | 67 (54.5) | 68 (55.3) | 48.6 | |
| Transitional | 14 (11.4) | 41 (33.3) | 18 (14.8) | 17 (13.8) | 18.4 | |
| Modern | 48 (39.0) | 39 (31.7) | 37 (30.3) | 38 (30.9) | 33 | |
Source: authors survey, 2020