The making of a multimillion-dollar honey export enterprise in Tanzania

Swahili Honey is the retail model of Central Park Bees, a Tanzanian enterprise based mostly in Dodoma that aggregates, processes and sells honey sourced from a community of rural smallholder beekeepers. How we made it in Africa editor-in-chief Jaco Maritz spoke to co-founder and CFO Christopher Kadendula to seek out out extra.

Matters mentioned throughout the interview embody:

• The fundamentals of beekeeping

• How the enterprise was began

• Discovering worldwide shoppers

• Entrepreneurship classes learnt

• Agribusiness alternatives in Tanzania and past