Samenvatting

Beekeeping is an important practice for income generation in the southwestern part of Ethiopia. However, the beekeeping practice of smallholder farmers were highly dominated by traditional system and they sell their honey for the local collectors at local market, where the honey quality is not the major issue. The quality of honey is a key parameter to obtain premium prices for the smallholder farmers, but smallholder farmers lack sufficient information about the honey quality required in the domestic market. Therefore, the study was conducted to identify the information gap on the current honey quality produced by the smallholder beekeepers and the honey quality demanded in the domestic market in Sheka zone Anderacha district.