Tobias C. O. Ukeh

Tobias Ukeh is an internationally certified trainer and educator with over 20 years of experience in apiculture and community empowerment.

Learning how bees could be domesticated through his mentors, Tobias went further to acquire more knowledge of beekeeping while in the seminary.

After he was ordained a Catholic priest in 2007, he took relevant professional courses, both locally and internationally, in sustainable bio-beekeeping, as a veritable tool to achieve stable and secured land, food, economy, and environment.

Tobias Ukeh has been leading the Rural Watch Africa Initiative sustainable bio- beekeeping project, with the responsibility for educating and training many women, men, and youth living in vulnerable rural and underserved communities in Nigeria.

He is the CEO of Tobah Agro Global Enterprises, Nigeria, and a lecturer.

Apiculture in Nigeria

Beekeeping (apiculture): Towards self-reliance, poverty alleviation and environmental sustainability

The health, economic and environmental impacts of apiculture as a science of keeping bees to tap natural pure and unadulterated honey and processing honeybee byproducts for various industrial, nutritional and pharmaceutical usefulness cannot be overemphasised.

September 10, 2021