BDTL is an innovative for profit enterprise established in 2008, and is committed to making a sustainable impact in developing the honey value chain in Tanzania and to make the industry internationally competitive.

BDTL is headed by a Managing Director, who leads a team of specialists in apiary equipment manufacturing, honey production and processing, apiculture training.

BDTL has put in place the technical capacity for: (i) designing and manufacturing beekeeping equipment, (ii) disseminating modern beekeeping information, (iii) establishing and managing demonstration apiaries for training , (iv) producing quality honey in commercial apiaries in selected areas around the country, (v) honey processing and packaging the honey.

BDTL has established and operates a beehive manufacturing outfit with a capacity to produce 10,000 beehives a year. BDTL’s honey processing and packaging unit has capacity to handle up to five tons of honey per year.

Honey production in Tanzania is dominated by the use of traditional log and top bar hives. BDTL produces the Langstroth bee hive. The Langstroth beehive is technically superior to both the top bar and the traditional log hive, and it is devoid of all the management shortcomings of the traditional beehives. Change in beehive technology and management will thus make it possible for small beekeepers to improve productivity and quality of honey and permit profitable commercial bee farming.

At a firm level, the primary objective of BDTL is to exploit Tanzania’s potential for production of high quality bee products by large and small beekeepers and to make the Tanzanian beekeeping industry sustainable. BDTL’s ultimate goal is to play a part in upgrading the beekeeping industry and turn it into one of Tanzania’s significant source of income for itself and small beekeepers.

Our mission is to thrive to achieve the folowing:

• Manufacture and suppy Langstroth beehives and pertinent equipment,
• Development of an efficient honey value chain,
• Production of high quality honey for sale to niche markets,
• Improved honey processing, packaging, branding and marketing,
• Increased incomes of small beekeepers, • Economies of scale,
• Sustainable honey production, and
• Sustainable environmental management with bees as a key component of biodiversity.