– Short form of ‘Meliponiculture Using a Split-able Throne within an air-jacketed palace for Amplification-Hive’ – An innovative hive-system which creates a suitable nesting atmosphere for the bees and offers more hygienic honey production through SOP practices. – Made from chemical-free fried shorea wood plates – Consists of honey cassette, brood chamber, air-jacketed insulation. – The honey cassette induces significant yields of monolayer honey pot formations from which the honey is extracted from. – PATENT PENDING MUSTAFA-Hive NO: 2014002146
National awards winning system at * Meliponiculture Using Split-able Throne within Air-jacketed palace For Amplification-Hive (MUSTAFA-Hive). Facilitates colony expansion and health screening, while simultaneously providing a habitat that can be adapted to changing climatic conditions. Effectively promotes a more hygienic honey production practice via in-door harvest approach from systematically organised farms The system had survived the first ever black soldier fly larvae infection outbreak in 2016 that caused the loss of over RM1 million.
The outbreak that was associated with the El-Nino affected the colonies primarily in traditional log-hives, but no cases were reported in the Mustafa-Hive rearing system.