Beekeeping & Financial Literacy @ Burewai District in the border of Ra Province & Tailevu.

Delaiyadua & Matainananu Church

Participants getting ready for 1st day training

District Chief with 'Red Shirt' - Tui Dama with group discussions.

Waisake pointing the wild bees in the tree trunk beside the village.

Close-up on the entrance of the bee swarm inside the tree trunk

Semi on the right & John in the middle with a participant

BEEKEEPING TRAINING @ Rokoroko

Typical residence of the villages in Rokoroko.

John Caldera along with participants, ready for outdoor bee hive activity.

Semi on the left and John Caldera in action during morning seassion. 

Land Preparation at Saivou

The Saivou Nursery as of December 2010.

From left: Waisake & Eliki Radausiga infront of the flourising NSMED Saivou nursery at Wainivula,Nailawa.

Inside the nursery with the capsicum, chillies, tomatoes seedling ready to be transpoted to the farmers (incubates) 

TUVAVATU NURSERY AT RAKIRAKI

From left: Mr.Eliki Radausiga (Barotu Valley Farmer) ; Mr.Semi.K (BIC Manager); Mr.Saluvou (BIC Tech) and Mr.Ranjit (Contractor) on the nursery planting egg plants, capsicum and tomatoes to be handed out to our farmers within the Saivou & Rakiraki district.

From left: Mr.Bilitaki (BIC tech); Mr.Saluvou and Mr.Ranjit fully distributing the planted trays on the various tables in the green house.

CASH CROP PROGRAM (Peanut) at Vatukacevaceva, Rakiraki

Business Incubator Rakiraki Co-ordinator Semi along with a contractor on the site of Beqa Maraivalu on the land prepartion for 2 acres of peanut. This is the initiative that is currently being conducted by the Centre in conjuction with Government's Demand Driven Approach (DDA) ; Export Promotion & Import Substituton Programs in the District of Ra. The Center estimates a total of 4 incubatees for peanut with a total of 8 acres to be harvested in the month of February 2011.

Waimalua Beekeeping Delivery at Tailevu on Sept 10th.

The Delivery Crew on their way from Rakiraki with 50 live bee hives at Wainibuka crossing .

The delivery was done at about 4am in the morning.

Live bees in single boxes being neatly arranged on the prepared site for Vetaia who is our incubater in Tailevu. Waisake who is the NCSMED/BIC technical officer instructing the 'delivery team' on the placement of the hives on its stands.  

Rakiraki NCSMED/BIC coordinator , Mr Semi.Kacanavesikula ( bula shirt) along with our Tailevu Incubates, Waisea & Vetaia supervising the entire operation goes according to plan.

The interior of the Delivery truck as it look during delivery to the 5 new incubates being assisted, monitored and coordiantored from Rakiraki. Each incubates was also assisted with 1 bag of sugar (not edible) for the bees to feed upon during rainny seaseons,as a precaution to starvation which is one of the major causes of hive deaths in Fiji.