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History of Supa Bee Farm Supa Bee Farm was founded by Mr. Somboon and Ms. Supa Yawiloet, a couple who learned how to raise bees from the Taiwanese in 1985. From formally it was just a supplementary career, it became their main occupation in 1987, until they can bring the product to market both domestically and internationally to be widespread.
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Also, Supa Bee Farm is a place for world bee members from over 70 countries to observe activity in Bee World Expo 2000 in Chiang Mai. Later, the company developed packaging
and attended SMEs training organized by the Department of Industrial Promotion and has been certified for meeting GMP/ FAD standards by the Food and Drug Administration / GAP / HACCP standards, certified on Halal foods from the Central Islamic Committee of Thailand. All products must pass quality inspection before delivery to customer. In addition to natural honey, there are also agricultural products processed from other bees, which are demanded a lot in the market. For government sector, the Department of Export Promotion, Ministry of Commerce, also encouraged to participate in expos both domestically and internationally. This made products from Supa Bee Farm well-known with good feedback because customers are confident in quality of the product and it becomes popular in Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong, United States, etc. 4
Variety and quality of goods which are sold to both domestic and foreign markets of Supa Bee Farm guarantee its ability of manufacturer to a certain extent. But to get to where they are today, it is not easy.
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To have this success, Mr.Somboon and Ms.Supa Yawiloet, the first pioneers, must overcome many obstacles and experience many matters because they were not born with inheritance of business, but just teachers in Mae Rim District, Chiangmai Province. 6
At the beginning, Mr.Somboon and his wife were government teachers and experienced many extra jobs. But the quality of life was not improved much. Until about 1985, Mr. Chen Jin, a 60-year-old Taiwanese, came to ask for renting a house for a bee farm at Mae Rim District. Then Mr. Somboon began to learn that bee farming is an interesting career. This inspired him because all the time worked as a teacher and did a lot of extra work, life was not what he expected. So he decided to learn it by volunteering to work with workers of Mr. Chen Jin on every holiday.
There was no lecture for this learning, but he had to observe, memorize, and ask questions to get the knowledge. Until the end of that year, Mr. Somboon and Ms. Supa, the couple, decided to buy bees to try raising on their own, for 10 beehives, expanding 3 more beehives, and bought more to trial and error from their experience. 7
Until March 1987, the bees fed with natural nectars from Longan flowers were able to bring up to 150 kilograms of longan flower honey. This encouraged him in doing so. Then, he allowed Mr. Chen Jin to sell it in Taiwan and earned a return of more than ten thousand baht. This made him joyful so much.
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From such experience and with willingness accumulated, he could expand from few tens of beehives into 200-300 beehives at a later time with better returns, respectively.
Finally, Ms. Supa, his wife decided to resign from the teacher career and turned to a full-time bee farmer, and began to market the bee products market by packing bottles of 1 kilogram weight, hawking neighbors or familiar people and focused on the general market with both domestic and foreign sales in the brand “Supa Bee Farm�. In 2005, they joined as one of the exporters under the name of Department of Export Promotion, Ministry of Commerce, and incorporated as Supa Farm Bee Co., Ltd. In 2015, Supa Bee Farm established a learning center to be a knowledge dissemination center for people interested in the matter of bees, amazing insects that are paired with Thai farmers. 11
Good quality honey meeting the market demand. Not only the knowledge in and out of the textbook in the field of bee farming properly, the main thing that should not be overlooked is production and processing methods that rely on skill and experience reasonably. You have to understand the nature of bees as well. Honey collection is not difficult. At first, simply smoke bees, then brush the bees out. Then slice off surface of the beehive about 1 centimeter deep, then put a honey extractor and rotate it for about 15 minutes to get a fresh natural honey. The beehive that passed extraction will be kept in the same container to keep the beekeeping case to make honey further. Each beehive can be extracted 5 times a month.
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To choose good quality honey, it must be pure honey without contamination including sugar, odor, color, and other chemicals. It must be honey derived from that type of pollutant 100% with moisture content of not more than 21%, which is equal to 79-80% viscosity, except wild honey that may contain honey pollen from many kinds of flower mixed. At present, “Supa Bee Farm� is a manufacturer of processed agricultural products from millions of more than 10,000 beehives, able to produce more than 200 tons of honey per year. At bee farm of Mr. Somboon and Ms. Supa Yawiloet, including that of beekeepers in Mae Rim District, Chiang Mai Province, there are a variety of processed products from bees including honey, sweet nutrient with fragrance of flowers, such as wild flower, longan flower, sunflower, lychee flower and sesame flowers, usually used to add in a cup of coffee, milk, or all kinds of drinks and make meat dishes and desserts well.
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Special Features of Agricultural Products from Bees. • Honey
It is a sweet nutrient with fragrance, based on types of flowers, which is consumed by adding into coffee, milk or drinks of all kinds, and well used for cooking and desserts because it contains minerals, protein, amino acid, fructose to strengthen the body. Benefits of Honey • Nourish body and heal constipation, stomachache and insomnia. • Eliminate fatigue, exhaustion and nourish eyesight. • Mixed with medicine and limeade to relieve cough, dry throat, and prevent colds. • To sweeten, use honey instead of sugar every time. • Treat fresh wounds, ulcers, scalds and wounds from surgery. 15
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Each Type of Honey Longan Flower Honey : It is from longan flowers, fragrant and sweet, dark yellow, sticky and viscous, not crystallized, consumed by using a spoon to scoop directly, sweet and delicious, popular with Thai, Chinese, Taiwanese, Malaysian, Indonesian, Singaporean and Hong Kong people.
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Wild Flower Honey : It sometimes is called “5th Month Honey�. It is a honey made from many flowers in the forest with grasses, Chromolaena odorata, etc. It is a yellow herbal honey with fragrance from flowers, which some people say that it is the moderate odor, not very fragrant. The wild honey usually is mixed with herbs to make boluses nourishing racing horses, nourishing fighting cocks and pickling liquor. This honey will crystallize in winter or at temperature in refrigerators. Lychee Flower Honey : It is yellow, clear, sweet and sour, and fragrant. There may be some crystallization if stored at low temperature. Sunflower Honey. It is light yellow, sweet and sour. Mostly it is organic honey and non-toxic, produced in Lop Buri, Nakhon Sawan. Sesame Flower Honey : It is clear yellow, sour, delicious, has an aroma of sesame flower. It is a non-toxic organic honey, crystalized in winter. So, iIt should not be stored in the refrigerator. The source is located in Lop Buri, Nakhon Sawan and Saraburi. 19
• Flower pollen or bee pollen
It is the flower pollen that bees do not eat but gather as small clumps attached to both legs to be stored in the beehive. In front of the beehive, there is a box to detect pollens which the bees pass through the net and then the pollens fall into the box. Then the pollens was brought for disinfection to be kept for consumption. 20
How to consume Brew it with hot water, tea, coffee, milk and sprinkle on desserts. It can prevent allergy and heal anorexia, headache and fatigue. Benefits Bee pollen contains high, 16 types of vitamin, minerals and 18 types of enzyme to prevent allergies, joint pain, bone pain, menstrual pain, headache (migraine). It is for those who like herbal medicine to apply to mix with boluses, cough syrup, cure inflammatory bowel disease and slow down development of freckles.
• Royal Jelly or Bee milk
It is white-yellow thick cream looking like canned milk. Actually, this nutrient, the worker bees bring to feed queen bee. Actually, bees put bee milk out of their mouths because the bees do not have breast. The taste is sour, spicy, fizzy to irritate throat, with smell like sweet fermented rice, which is beneficial to health more than honey 10 times since it contains good protein, various amino acids, iron, minerals, various vitamins, fats and carbohydrates. It is as an elixir. The fresh bee milk can be eaten with a spoon directly. 21
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As the queen bee has eaten milk for its whole life, it can produce up to 1,500-2,000 eggs a day, or called 24-hours production, and lasts up to 5 years. Meanwhile, the male bee has life span only 90-100 days old. The bee milk has been analyzed by scientists that there are nutrients that are very beneficial to the human body. Those who cannot drink the fresh bee milk for taste of fresh bee milk may choose to take capsules of bee milk with equal nutritional value.
• Snacks and Refreshment
Cereal bars and cereal cookies : With a mixture of natural ingredients valuable to body to be mixed as a perfect mixture and then baked, we get the fragrant appetizing snacks. It is suitable for breakfast together with tea and coffee as you like. Honey lemon drink : It is a natural honey processed product from beekeeping farm, which gives sweet and mild taste with sour of lemon to refresh you. Simply pour it in to a glass of ice to quench thirst well. It is suitable for health lovers to drink at any time. 23
• Beauty Products
Honey liquid soap and honey soap bar: They are pure soap for skin nourishing with a mixture of pure honey and herbs that are beneficial to the skin such as turmeric, zingiber cassumunar and 100% honey. It is a soap that provides more than just cleaning because the honey nourishes the skin to be smooth, bright and not rough.
• Other categories
Ginseng in honey, honey-pickled elephant garlic, black galingale in honey : Ginseng, elephant garlic and black galingale are all elixir that all people can design life for quality, with consumption of Thai elixir which is locally available and affordable. And when they are put it in the honey that has properties of both food and medicine, they can help restore your health well. Propolis is a sticky mixture as rubber from bark of the tree the worker bees collect. Medically, propolis has a property to stimulate the immune system in the body which is a natural mechanism in the human body. It also helps kill or weaken harmful microorganisms, such as fungi, bacteria, as well as various viruses unable to harm human beings. 24
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Honeycomb : It is a natural product derived from the clean honeycomb in good condition without bee broods, cut into pieces to the desired size, added with honey and then packed in a container, or from the honeycomb shaken off to remove honey, then cut into pieces to the desired size, and then added with honey. It is a healthy product which is in demand of Hong Kong and Japan markets. Bee wax : It is extracted from natural honeycombs, with properties to smoothen skin. Generally it is used in the cosmetic industry, such as lotion, cream, sunscreen, lipstick, eyeliner, balsam, polishing works, including candles. Products in various festivals such as wedding souvenirs and gift baskets 26
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Honey : health benefits and uses in medicine.
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FOR HEALTH
FOR GOOD VALUE OF LIFE
SUPHA BEE FARM CO.,LTD.
779 M.1 RIMTAI, MAERIM, CHIANG MAI THAILAND 50180 Tel. +66 5329 7329, +66 86 911 0407 FAX. +66 5329 9501 BANGKOK : +66 81 515 0405 Email : suphabeefarm@gmail.com / FB : suphabeefarm2012 32