> So it sounds like the beekeepers 
> here are the Honey Care staff; 
> the farmer just buys the hive and 
> collects the revenue? Isn't that 
> kind of like giving a man a fish 
> instead of teaching him how to fish?

That's not the process, honest.

I'll blame the translation into English here, as I am sure that what they
meant to say was that a NEW beekeeper will need some in-person help from the
dedicated staff when first starting out.  There are not many lectures, the
classes are all "hands on".  Books are of little value to an illiterate
population.   They've jumped directly to cellphone apps, bypassing Gutenberg
for Mark Zuckerberg.

So, it is teaching a man to fish by taking him fishing, and helping him land
the first few to assure success, as fathers do with their sons.  (I raised
my first son in Ft Lauderdale, FL, so we would fish together in the Los Olas
Blvd canal for entire afternoons.  He was about 8 before he realized that
bait was required to actually catch fish.  One did not want to catch or eat
fish from that canal at that time.  But he learned to cast with style and
panache...) 

And "farmer" is a misnomer.  "Farms" are the size that we would call a
"back-yard garden" for a single family, or a small portion of a
communally-farmed field with no fences or markers, but well-known
boundaries, none the less.  A man has 4 sons, who each get 1/4 his land, and
so on, and so on.

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