Table 9.
Factors affecting honey production in the study area.
| S/N | Production Challenges | Zones (Frequency/Percent) |
Average freq (%) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bench-Sheko | Kaffa | West-Omo | Shaka | |||
| 1 | Lack of modern technology | 85 (89.4) | 126 (95.1) | 36 (94.2) | 117 (91.1) | 91 (92.5) |
| 2 | Absconding | 62 (65.8) | 73 (55.3) | 27 (70.5) | 1061 (86.2) | 67 (69.5) |
| 3 | Lack of beekeeping knowledge | 87 (91.8) | 119 (88.6) | 28 (72.9) | 95 (80.5) | 82 (83.5) |
| 4 | Poor pre and post harvesting management | 68 (72.3) | 125 (92.6) | 25 (64.8) | 82 (69.9) | 75 (74.9) |
| 5 | Poor extension service | 78 (82.9) | 65 (49.6) | 19 (47.5) | 59 (49.6) | 55 (57.4) |
| 6 | Lack of input supply (beekeeping equipment) | 58 (61.8) | 51 (39.0) | 15 (37.7) | 50 (42.3) | 43 (45.2) |
| 7 | High cost of modern bee hives | 63 (66.6) | 92 (69.9) | 18 (47.2) | 104 (88.6) | 69 (68.1) |
| 8 | Lack of credit service | 30 (30.9) | 48 (36.5) | 10 (25.4) | 23 (20.3) | 28 (28.3) |
| 9 | Deforestation | 21 (22.7) | 38 (29.2) | 8 (19.6) | 36 (30.8) | 26 (25.6) |
| 10 | Shortage bee forage | 55 (57.7) | 98 (73.9) | 17 (45.1) | 43 (36.6) | 53 (53.3) |
| 11 | Pests and predators | 53 (56.1) | 82 (61.7) | 17 (43.4) | 30 (26.0) | 46 (46.8) |
| 12 | Pesticide and herbicide threat | 50 (52.8) | 85 (64.2) | 15 (40.2) | 39 (33.3) | 47 (47.6) |
| 13 | Death of honey bee in colony | 34 (36.5) | 62 (47.1) | 16 (41.8) | 31 (26.8) | 35 (38.1) |
Source: Own survey data, 2020