Dytech Limited

We are applying for Elevate Prize to support our social impact footprint drive in order to build working mutually beneficial partnerships through training 10000 rural producers of honey and equip each one with 10 beehives over the next 2 years. With $300,000 grant we will build 60,000 ZamHives® beehives at $5 each and partner with 10,000 rural outgrowers giving each 10 ZamHives® beehives helping save countless of unique tree species from wild prestine forests across Africa.The production output will be 3000tons of honey with $10,500,000 revenue generated from export in the second year.Then will reinvest back 50% into beehives production capacity and increase honey output from rural outgrowers.Women will get 40% (100,000 beehives) of the total 250,000 to be distributed to rural producers and 88% (220,000 beehives) will be given to rural youths on a co-ownership agreement to offer viable long term project sustainability.In turn we will offer all our rural trained and empowered producers a direct off take market for honey which we will export to already secured export big markets.The initial annual production sales from honey exports will be $8,000,000 by end of 2022 and 40% will go into reinvestment into expansion of the project footprint across Africa through building beehives. The project seeks to offer social economic impact to the lives of thousands of rural communities in Africa by engaging them to produce high value honey for export to global markets such as Europe and Asia through developing a commercially scalable,viable and sustainable disruptive oriented business model with thousands of $5 low cost and highly productive (ZAMHIVES®) beehives in an outgrower scheme that is able to produce honey from the untouched ecologically stable virgin forests and carefully selected rural areas of Africa,through our Value Matching Payment™ (MVP™) (a rural livelihood  improvement program matching productivity with asset solutions) and rural outgrower scheme system called Out Grow It™ (OGI™  (a disruptive sustainable cross cutting social economic solution),we are creating scalable sustainable tangible income generating opportunities to lift thousands out of poverty and save countless of unique trees from pristine forests of Africa.

Alan Chanda -Founder, CEO Alan is a multiple award winning Zambian social entrepreneur and 2019 DUBAI EXPO LIVE 4th Cycle innovation winner with a BSc in electrical and electronics engineering from the University of Zambia Alan is a social impact entrepreneur with an engineering background who won a Nyamuka Zambia award in 2016 sponsored by UKAID.Using the awards money started Dytech and built a brand called SweetHarvest™.Using his engineering skills,Alan designed a new hive which he named ZamHive®  a low cost $5 double deck highly productive beehive made from unwanted wood waste and offcuts that lifted yields from 15kg per season to 75kg.His firm has impacted 2500 rural outgrowers equipped with 5000 beehives engaged to produce 160tons of honey.SweetHarvest™ is bottled in 250g,350g &500g retailing in 150 shops in Zambia.Profits are reinvested in ZamHives® production and partner expansion.He has developed innovation to begin producing Honeyman Sweet™ Lollipops,Candy & Lozenges.

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We aim to reduce the deforestation in most areas where we are producing honey by 90% through the provision of thousands of eco friendly innovative beehive made from wood waste and unwanted offcuts.With our eco friendly ZamHive®beehives given to thousands of rural people,forests are saved,trees thrive providing incomes from honey production and maintaining stable ecosystems.This is by engaging thousands of rural people to plant thousands of pine and fruit trees (i.e.mango&avocadoes) from rural community nurseries seeds collected from dumps and at the same time use natural flowering trees in tropical forests to produce high value honey for export to global markets.The benefits of the project have been creating a circular economy within the wood manufacturing industry,with wood waste being recycled to create the ZamHive® beehives as well as bolstering local bee populations which are under threat.An unintended benefit has been that the beehives have reduced human–animal conflicts in rural farming communities, as the bees are a deterrent to wildlife such as elephants and therefore form a natural barrier between farmlands and wildlife areas.Huge areas of forests are affected in most honey production areas of Africa due to cutting tree barks,logs and bushes to make beehives. 

The  primary  methods  of  producing  honey  in  Africa despite  having  great  forested  areas and communities with the capacity to produce the honey remains unproductive, expensive  and harmful to the environment as it involves the cutting down of trees and removal of tree backs. This leaves trees susceptible to pets attack, diseases and poor health which results in loss of thousands of trees most of them cannot never be replaced. The market price for a modern beehive is $40 making this production system and distribution channel expensive, as such rural communities and small holder farmers are unable to afford and implement it in order to meet the market demand. The estimated 1,000,000 rural honey farmers from Africa in countries such as Ethiopia, Zambia and Southern Democratic Republic of Congo have very low honey production, hence we have positively tested a low cost $5, double deck and highly productive beehive that is moveable, durable and has productivity uplift of 250%.

Huge areas of forests are affected in most honey production areas of Africa due to cutting tree barks, logs and bushes to make beehives (i.e.Barkhives from tree barks and Loghives from tree logs) which kill trees.Loss of trees results in :Depletion of water resources (e.g. Lake Chad has been reduced to about half its size which was one of the largest fresh water lakes in the world). By deploying this solution,forests will offer incomes to rural communities and save countless wild forests trees.

Our project is cost effective, sustainable and scalable as it is built on a $5 low cost and highly productive beehive all made from wood off cuts and unwanted pieces from commercial plantations.It Increases honey productivity by 250% (15kg to 75kg) per beehive. It empowers and trains rural communities through an outgrower scheme where 40% of the individuals engaged are women and 88% are youths.The beehive can easily be deployed and moved to any place of placement.We are also developing high nutritional Innovative value added products which provide hard access micronutrients to help reduce hidden hunger and child stunting in Africa such as:• Honeyman Sweet™ in various flavours (Lollipops,Candy & Lozenges)• Pure honeyman cubes™ (for tea or coffee as a natural sweetener) • Honey Lollipops™ (mango,orange,lemon,pineapple,banana,strawberry)• Honeyman Lozenges™ (ginger,eucaliptus,aloevera,moringa,lemon,) • Honey nuts™ (groundnuts,cashewnuts,macadam nuts etc) • Honeyman Candy Bar™ (mixed fruits,honey,groundnuts and cashewnuts) • Honeyman Diva™ (face powder,lotion,lipbalm,lipstick,cream)• Honeyman Gel™ (pure beeswax gel for dressing wounds and muscle relaxation and liquid cream for rush and burns)• Honeyman Polish™ (shoe polish for high earned leather ,Leather mats, leather sofas, car dash boards, leather car seats and timber floors)  • Honeyman Candles™ wax based products (scented candles and none scented candles).

The project seeks to promote thousands of jobs offering rural livelihood improvement through social impacts that cuts across many spheres of people’s communities. The project targets small rural farmers as major beneficiaries such as  women,youths and poor rural populations across Africa. The rural communities will benefit through skill development,sustainable incomes,expanded potential micro businesses and a guaranteed immediate honey and wax market as we give them free onsite training and empower them with high productive beehives (ZamHives®) to use for increased honey production for export into the global value chains such as China and Europe.

• Increase honey productivity for rural outgrowers  to be equipped with 60,000 beehives for the next two years
• Predictable sustainable income to rural outgrowers which in turn boots productivity
• Immediate guaranteed market for honey producers which increases outgrower financial opportunities by 150%.
• Offering livelihood improvement through value matching payment (VMP),a concept where material needs are used as a form of payment to rural outgrowers in combination with cash (e.g.oxdrawn ploughs, grindingmills,roofing sheets andsolar products).
• Innovative honey products such as lollipops, candy & lozenges to increase honey and wax consumption for export and local markets. These are highly healthy and nutritious products providing hard to access micro nutrients.
• Wide range of opportunities for rural based honey outgrowers to fit into our multiple variety of sources of the honey suppliers such as (6 provinces in Zambia and 2 towns in Southern Democratic Republic of Congo), which guarantees more reliable sources of  supply and offers multiple opportunities for natural based products .
• Low price advantage due to lower costs which increase sales volumes and benefits consumers.
• Protection of the natural forests 

Imagine a world where rural pure fair traded African honey sweets and sachets will be flying on commercial planes offering consumers a real natural sweetener for their tea or coffee.Bees and flowers have evolved together in a truly remarkable relationship that has literally clothed and coloured our world.There is always meticulous planning and preparation which is undertaken before the start of each season to ensure that the millions of bees in the pristine forests and carefully selected rural areas to capture every drop of available nectar and place it in the honeycomb.Our business model is growth oriented and creates hundreds of jobs across the integrated social economic sustainable values chains which we will build in Africa’s Miombo forests are a dynamic and intact ecosystem teaming with huge colonies of bees against a backdrop of one of the few places still truly wild and natural. This unique ecosystem of natural green zone thriving with wild flowering tree species,forms our backbone which houses the prime areas of sustainably gathered pure honey.

We a social impact enterprise operating in rural Africa dedicated to effectively changing lives through our designed innovative beehive (ZamHive®) whose yields have increased productivity from 15kg to 75kg each per season.Our innovation uses unwanted wood off cuts from commercial wood processing centers and plantations to produce thousands of the double-deck $5 low cost,highly productive beehives that goes into the outgrower schemes for increased honey production for export into global markets.We offer a traceable social economic foot print to 5000 rural outgrowers and small holder farmers by engaging them to produce high value honey for exports to global markets. Our idea is incredibly effective,scalable, ecofriendly,has high social economic benefits,from saving forests sustaining ecosystems to creating thousands of green jobs and improving millions of lives.We use innovative honey production and extraction methodologies that secure our constant supply of honey through multiple rural foot prints in honey outgrower schemes where we have distributed 5000 ZamHive® beehives.Our plan is to scale up the idea by making 250,000 ZamHive® beehives in Zambia,DRC and Sierra Leon impacting over 100,000 people as well as to meet the increasing global honey demand and help maintain stable ecosystem.