Major Constraints of Honey Production and Marketing in Badakhshan Province, Afghanistan

The study was conducted in Badakhshan province from May 2025 to June 2025 Year and the main objective of this study is to identify the major constraints in honey production and marketing in Badakhshan province. According to Geographic complexity, not enough facilities and inaccessibility of all districts, fiscal resources and higher production of honey, four districts like: Wardooj, Baharack, Jerm and Keshm have been selected. The total Beekeepers in 4 above citied districts are 185 and according to Yamane formula 126 beekeepers have been selected as sample size. For gathering information from respondents, a structured questionnaire was developed and used to collect data which were analyzed using SPSS version 25 and MS Excel. The finding revealed that the Major constraints that beekeepers faced in the study Area are: Death of colony and shortage of bee forage and also result shows that beekeepers faced to the major constraints of marketing honey in selling their products are: limited demands at local and national level and Competition with unlicensed producers. The result also indicates that in general the weather of cold, lack of beekeepers to more source of feeding and low of rainfall is the main obstacle of production honey and lack of consumers and not a better marketing channel to introduce honey products to local and national level is on marketing constraint of honey in the study area.