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Project Uses Honey to Help Alleviate Poverty in Vietnam
April 11 , 2007
A University of Guelph prof. has received $1 million from the Canadian International Development Agency to teach poor families in Vietnam how to use honey to put food on the table.
Gard Otis, of the Department of Environmental Biology, has developed a project aimed at teaching farming families effective beekeeping so they can cash in on the sweet crop.
“Beekeeping can make such a difference in income for these rural families,” said Otis.
His six-year project is focused on villages in north central Vietnam — one of the poorest regions of the country where selling just a dozen jars of honey can provide enough income to feed a family for months.
Beekeeping is a lucrative business in rural Vietnam because the honey produced in these villages is believed to have exceptional medicinal qualities
