A pilot bee farming project at the Minimum Security Prison had its first harvest yielding over 20 kilo of honey from five boxes.

Bee farming has been identified as having potential in terms of training value for inmates as well as possible income source when they are released.

The Naboro pilot project is being overseen by inmate Tevita Poese who has had some experience in bee farming before being imprisoned. Poese made the wooden case by himself with the fives boxes in the case as well as the frames where the honey is deposited.

“The yield indicates the potential bee farming has,” says the Supervisor Naboro Prisons, Josefa Kulinidilo.

The project was initiated in partnership with the Minister of Agriculture that provided the honey extracting cylinder.

The pilot yield will be package and sold to assess how the project could be taken forward.