A year ago, after his fruit trees and flowering plants matured, Ahmad started buying stingless bee hives, which he placed at his garden. Ahmad pointed out that the stingless bees were harmless compared to the more aggressive and deadly subspecies of honeybees. He currently owns 240 bee hives, which mostly consist of the Geniotrigona thoracica, Trigona terminata and Heterotrigona itama subspecies. “I am doing this not for the money but to show the people that stingless bee are a lucrative venture that can provide steady income. They cooperates to produce the honey but we can cooperate to sell the honey.”Ahmad also expressed belief that Kemaman would one day be the state’s single largest producer of stingless bee honey.

Source: New Strait Times October 19, 2017 07:30 UTC