Producers

API Relwendé

beekeeping cooperative · honey producer · honey processor

Centre-Ouest Region, Burkina Faso

API Relwendé is a honey-production and processing cooperative in Burkina Faso. Fidèle Kinda serves as its director. Members harvest honey, which the cooperative receives for processing.

From Centre-Ouest Region, Burkina Faso Honey Chronicles
Role beekeeping cooperative, honey producer, honey processor
Based in Centre-Ouest Region, Burkina Faso

About the Producer

A little history

Beekeeping began at a diocesan farm, and people in the recorded local area later came together to create the cooperative. No incorporation or founding date was located. A 2025 Burkina Faso government procurement notice uses the formal trading name “SCOOPS API RELWENDE.”

How They Work

Beekeeping in practice

Several cooperative members harvest honey, and the cooperative receives the raw honey for centralized processing. In a 2024 Agribusiness TV interview, the cooperative was reported to have more than 600 hives and a stated capacity of 200–300 litres of honey per week.

Where They Work

Location and reach

World Africa Burkina Faso

Producer Base

Centre-Ouest Region, Burkina Faso

The Interprofession Miel du Burkina public actor directory assigns producer Fidèle Kinda / SCOOPS RELWENDE to Centre-Ouest.

Apiary Or Forage

“Sapuie” zone, Burkina Faso (place spelling as rendered in the video transcript; likely requiring verification before normalization)

The 2024 interview transcript states that the cooperative’s more than 600 hives were installed in the “zone de Sapuie.” The transcript’s place spelling is not independently resolved by this source.

Products & Specimens

What connects to this producer

Products listed by the Producer are kept separate from specimens held in the Collection.

Publicly listed product

honey

People

People connected to the work

  • Fidèle Kinda Director of API Relwendé; listed producer for SCOOPS RELWENDE

Practices

How they work

  • The cooperative processes raw honey received from its member producers after harvest.
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