- Meliponula bees , also
known as Stingless bees, are insects like honey bees and known
in East Africa for their little sweet honey
- Meliponini bees are
among the best known taxonomically of the eliponini bee species
- Meliponiculture is
breeding of indigenous stingless bees
- Stingless bees include
a large number of different tropical and some subtropical species.
As in honey bees, they form social colonies and provision their
nests with honey and pollen, which are stored in pots made of beewax
or cerumen
- The fixed costs and
variables in meliponiculture with rational breeding, involving
shelter, management, honey collection and wrapping are the
following: Fixed costs: apiary, spatula, chisel, filter cloth,
plastic bucket of 10 litres, rational hive and fixed manual work;
Variable costs: wrapping pots (500ml), vinegar, sugar and variable
manual work.
- Meliponiculture is a
suitable enterprise for women as it does not involve heavy physical
work and painful sting
- Natural colony
duplication method is the method for splitting method for
propagating stingless bees.
- The composition of
stingless bee honey differ from other species according to some
physicochemical parameters and other studies prove that honey from
stingless bees are more valuable and it has been used for a long
time to treat various diseases
- Due to high content of
medicinal value, Stingless bee honey is sold at premium price and
there is high
demand everywhere.
- Stingless bee honey
showed a
potential for use in medicine as it contains phenolic that increases
antioxidant content as well as it can decrease oxidative
stress-related diseases.
- The average honey
production in a stingless honey bee colony can vary from 300 grams
to 1kg in a year. The difference in honey production depends on the
size of the colony and the nectar availability in the locality.
- Low
honey production reflects at the cost of stingless bee honey. On an
average, the prize of stingless bee honey is two to four times as
that of normal honey. This would make it an economically feasible
farming practice.
- The development and
enhancement of honey maturation techniques brought new market
possibilities and prospects, and attention to strong components of
gastronomical and geographical value of the product.
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Background Information
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Propolis Produced in Americas
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Wild Honey Bees
Product
Information
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Stingless Bee
Honey
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Physicochemical
Properties
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Stingless Bee
Honey Specification
Applications &
Benefits
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Value of Stingless bee
honey
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Wound Healer
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The neurologic
deficit and neural damage
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Healthy
Supplement
Process ,Technology
& Consultants
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Meliponiculture
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Type of Hive
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Nesting habits and
nest structure
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Colony
Duplication
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Maturation
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Project Information
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Techniques for hiving bees, the storage and
processing of honey, and food supplementation for healthy colonies.
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Project Economics
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Technology Transfer
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Rearing of stingless
bee queens
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Rearing Stingless
Bees
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Reproductive
parasitism
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Technology Sources
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Consultancy &
Training
Company Products
Environment
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Environmental
Impact on Stingless Bee Propolis
Market Scenario
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Challenges and
opportunities
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Stingless bees now
and in the future
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Invertebrate
Pollinator Network of South Asia
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Developments in India
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Australian Stingless
bees
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Stingless Bee
rearing in India
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Stingless bee keeping -
Tamil Nadu
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Industry in
Mexico
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Stingless bee in El
Salvador
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Malaysia
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