[ Pratiques apicoles et usages du miel dans deux villages riverains de la forêt classée de Badenou (Nord de la Côte d’Ivoire): Tiébila et Nafoun ]
Volume 54, Issue 1, April 2021, Pages 1–9
KONE Dofoungo1, Ohoueu Ehouman Jean Brice2, Sangare Moussa3, IRITIE Bruno Marcel4, and WANDAN Eboua Narcisse5
1 UMRI Sciences Agronomiques et Génie Rural, Ecole Doctorale Polytechnique, Institut National Polytechnique Félix Houphouët-Boigny de Yamoussoukro, Côte d’Ivoire
2 UMRI Sciences Agronomiques et Génie Rural, Ecole Doctorale Polytechnique, Institut National Polytechnique Félix Houphouët-Boigny de Yamoussoukro, Côte d’Ivoire
3 Département de Sociologie, UFR des Sciences sociales, Université Péléforo Gon Coulibaly de Korhogo, Côte d’Ivoire
4 Laboratoire de Zootechnie, Institut National Polytechnique Félix Houphouët-Boigny de Yamoussoukro, Côte d’Ivoire
5 UMRI Sciences Agronomiques et Génie Rural, Ecole Doctorale Polytechnique, Institut National Polytechnique Félix Houphouët-Boigny de Yamoussoukro, Côte d’Ivoire
Original language: French
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This study was conducted in Tiebila and Nafoun, two villages bordering the Badenou classified forest. It aims to highlight the uses of honey by the populations of this area and their apicultural practices that can be encouraged or improved in order to exploit optimally the potential for honey production of this forest. The data were collected using documentation, direct observation in the field, 22 interviews including 14 individuals and eight focus groups. The beekeeping activity is ancestral and essentially based on the «hunt for honey» which uses fire during the harvest of honey. People use honey to meet their nutritional, therapeutic, economic and cultural needs. Several «honey hunters» and former beekeepers have shown interest in modern beekeeping as an economic opportunity. The former traditional and modern beekeepers hold some apicultural knowledge such as the selection of plant species by bees for food, the use of certain plants as attracting swarms to prepare hives to facilitate their colonization by bees. Honey is a multi-purpose product of great importance to the populations of Tiebila and Nafoun. The use of fire during harvesting honey must be avoided. The use of certain plants as attracting swarms is a traditional knowledge and beekeeping know-how whose capitalization in a project of modernization of the beekeeping should allow a reduction of the cost.
Author Keywords: Beekeeping activity, honey, uses, classified forest, Badenou.
Volume 54, Issue 1, April 2021, Pages 1–9
KONE Dofoungo1, Ohoueu Ehouman Jean Brice2, Sangare Moussa3, IRITIE Bruno Marcel4, and WANDAN Eboua Narcisse5
1 UMRI Sciences Agronomiques et Génie Rural, Ecole Doctorale Polytechnique, Institut National Polytechnique Félix Houphouët-Boigny de Yamoussoukro, Côte d’Ivoire
2 UMRI Sciences Agronomiques et Génie Rural, Ecole Doctorale Polytechnique, Institut National Polytechnique Félix Houphouët-Boigny de Yamoussoukro, Côte d’Ivoire
3 Département de Sociologie, UFR des Sciences sociales, Université Péléforo Gon Coulibaly de Korhogo, Côte d’Ivoire
4 Laboratoire de Zootechnie, Institut National Polytechnique Félix Houphouët-Boigny de Yamoussoukro, Côte d’Ivoire
5 UMRI Sciences Agronomiques et Génie Rural, Ecole Doctorale Polytechnique, Institut National Polytechnique Félix Houphouët-Boigny de Yamoussoukro, Côte d’Ivoire
Original language: French
Copyright © 2021 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
This study was conducted in Tiebila and Nafoun, two villages bordering the Badenou classified forest. It aims to highlight the uses of honey by the populations of this area and their apicultural practices that can be encouraged or improved in order to exploit optimally the potential for honey production of this forest. The data were collected using documentation, direct observation in the field, 22 interviews including 14 individuals and eight focus groups. The beekeeping activity is ancestral and essentially based on the «hunt for honey» which uses fire during the harvest of honey. People use honey to meet their nutritional, therapeutic, economic and cultural needs. Several «honey hunters» and former beekeepers have shown interest in modern beekeeping as an economic opportunity. The former traditional and modern beekeepers hold some apicultural knowledge such as the selection of plant species by bees for food, the use of certain plants as attracting swarms to prepare hives to facilitate their colonization by bees. Honey is a multi-purpose product of great importance to the populations of Tiebila and Nafoun. The use of fire during harvesting honey must be avoided. The use of certain plants as attracting swarms is a traditional knowledge and beekeeping know-how whose capitalization in a project of modernization of the beekeeping should allow a reduction of the cost.
Author Keywords: Beekeeping activity, honey, uses, classified forest, Badenou.
Abstract: (french)
Cette étude a été menée à Tiébila et Nafoun, deux villages riverains de la forêt classée de Badenou. Elle vise à faire ressortir les usages du miel par les populations de cette zone et leurs pratiques apicoles pouvant être encouragées ou améliorées en vue d’une exploitation optimale des potentialités de production mellifère de cette forêt. Les données ont été collectées à l’aide de la documentation, de l’observation directe sur le terrain, de 22 entretiens dont 14 individuels et huit collectifs. L’activité apicole y est ancestrale et essentiellement basée sur la «chasse au miel» qui a recours au feu lors de la récolte du miel. Les populations utilisent le miel pour satisfaire leurs besoins alimentaires, thérapeutiques, économiques et culturels. Plusieurs «chasseurs de miel» et anciens apiculteurs ont manifesté leur intérêt pour l’apiculture moderne qu’ils perçoivent comme une opportunité économique. Les anciens apiculteurs traditionnels et modernes sont détenteurs de certaines connaissances apicoles telles la sélection des espèces végétales par les abeilles pour se nourrir, l’utilisation de certaines plantes comme attire-essaims pour préparer les ruches en vue de faciliter leur colonisation par les abeilles. Le miel est un produit à usages multiples et de grande importance pour les populations de Tiébila et Nafoun. L’usage du feu lors de la récolte du miel est à proscrire. L’utilisation de certaines plantes comme attire-essaims constitue un savoir et savoir-faire apicole traditionnel dont la capitalisation dans un projet de modernisation de l’apiculture devrait permettre une réduction du coût.
Author Keywords: Activité apicole, miel, usages, forêt classée, Badenou.
How to Cite this Article
KONE Dofoungo, Ohoueu Ehouman Jean Brice, Sangare Moussa, IRITIE Bruno Marcel, and WANDAN Eboua Narcisse, “Beekeeping practices and uses of honey in two villages bordering the classified forest of Badenou (North of Côte d'Ivoire): Tiébila and Nafoun,” International Journal of Innovation and Scientific Research, vol. 54, no. 1, pp. 1–9, April 2021.
