Zambia Honey Council Executive Committee

ZHC Chairmain
Mark Chona

Trevor Watson

Bill Kalaluka

Membership Category

The primary members of the council are the Producers and Traders :

The Producers category comprises the following:

Bee-keepers using modern beehives
Traditional honey producers using bark hives.

The Traders category comprises the following:

Processors
Packers
and Exporters

How to Join

To become a member as PRODUCERS:

You need to be in a group comprising not less than 20 members and are required to pay an annual subscription/membership fee of K250,000.

To become a member as a TRADER:

You are required to pay an annual subscription/membership fee of K500,000.

Membership is from January to December each year. Full membership is paid regardless of the month of joining and is valid for the year remaining. Producers and traders are advised to join earlier in the year. At time of renewal, full annual membership fees must be paid. Failure to renew the membership by January of each year results in suspension of ZHC membership although the member in question will still remain on the ZHC list of members. If membership is not renewed by June, then the names of the member(s) in question will be removed from the register.

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Member Benefits

ZHC will avail to you the following facilities:

Link to markets and possible links

Technical advice on training methodologies for specific markets

Opportunities to advertise on the website and newsletter

Opportunities to receive information and give comment relating to the industry via website/newsletter

Tuned into District Information Network which serves as a communication channel between bee products producers/traders/processors/service providers/input suppliers

Access to central bulking centres/central buying and selling points in the districts

Privileged to receive the ZHC seal of approval for product promotion and quality assurance.

Training/capacity building in quality and business management.

Technical advice on packaging and labelling

Access to the ZHC database to create links with financial lending institutions, buyers of bee products, input suppliers, trainers, laboratories, certification bodies and producers of bee products.

Product information and international representation as a ZHC member

Initial inspection and guidance for application for organic certificate

Co-ordination of certification procedures

Biannual newsletter, access to website members pages

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Membership Form

Choose one of the following options:

Traders Producers

Name of Orgnisation

Postal address

Telephone, cell, fax, email

Date of application

Description of organisation

Name and address of Producer group - if different to above

Location of Producer group (physical addresses):

Contact Person:

Number of smallholder producers' in-group

Next season cropping plan for the entire holding (indicate whether organic or conventional)

Size of land for organic certification

Crops planted/sown to this land in current growing season

If you would like an application form sent to a fellow Bee product producer, processor/trader or organisation who are interested in becoming a ZHC member, please enter his/her details below

Name:

Postal address:

Tel /Fax

Email:

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Grace Kanyanga of HIVOS Zambia Country Office and Sonene Ncube from HIVOS regional office in Zimbabwe both commended the ZHC for come up with an action plan on institutional and human resource capacity building which they have started implementing.
They said that ZHC had done very well and better than other organizations in terms of institutional capacity building.
The two officials said they were particularly pleased because HIVOS is one of the funders of ZHC programmes.......Read more

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2009 was full of activities for the Zambia Honey Council (ZHC) and its membership from across the country. Apart from undergoing training in gender mean streaming and bulking centre management, members were called to elect a new board at the annual general AGM) meeting helding on October 14, 2009.
In an interview after the elections ZHC programmes office McDonald Kayuuna said that he was pleased that the AGM had performed its functions very well.
Mr. Kayuuna commended the commitment of ZHC members particularly beekeepers and parkers for their interactive involvement during the AGM. Mr. Kayuuna said as ZHC programmes officer he was encouraged to work hard for the beekeepers and parkers especially that others traveled as faras Mufumbwe in North-Western Province to attend the ZHC A.G.M...... read more

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