The Hive ltd is certified by the Kenya Bureau of Standards as a quality honey producer. It is the only organization that values quality honey production with modern bee keeping technologies that do not destroy trees and contaminate honey.
5. HIVE BEEKEEPING KIT (HBK)
10 Units of Modern and treated CAB Hives – (Improved Langstroth model for African bee)
1 Smoker
1 Centrifuge (honey processing machine)
1 Hive tool
1 Bee brush
1 uncapping set (with tray, uncapping forks and frame holding tables)
2 sets of protective clothing
Bee Keeping Seminar especially for beginners
Management service Provided at Minimal fee
5 Market – The Hive Company buys all beehive products from its clients
6. Why This CAB Hive for The African Bee?
i. The CAB hive is engineered in such a way that it allows the bee keeper to attend to
the hive fast and effectively enough because of the aggressiveness of the African
bee. It has been made easy to clean the hives in the easiest way possible and all
parts fit to each other professionally well. This hive has bees space perfect for the
smaller African bee and easy to operate and manage.
ii. Quality hard wood - more than 20 years life span
iii. Use of dovetail or straight joints making it very strong.
iv. Very stable to different kinds of whether i.e. very hot, cold, humid etc Situations
v. Stable ability to produce more than 10kgs/harvest.
vi. Made from seasoned wood, with properly glued joints to give you decades of
beekeeping experience.
vii. With very strong and effective Hive doors to lock the bees inside during re-location
or transportation.
viii. The door locks are designed in such a way that you can calibrate entrance to match
the size of the bees in order to avoid entry of unwanted pests such as the Hive
beetles, Wasps etc
ix. The Hive can be transported un-assembled and then assemble at the field!
7. Hand operated honey processing
machine
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Stainless steel – Hygiene
Easy to clean and maintain
Very strong and operator friendly.
Quality honey gate
The stands can be screwed on the
ground to make it stable
during operation.
High quality gear box
Transparent cover flaps.
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Modern smoker with heat guard Hive tool with hive cleaning edge
and hive tool holder
Bee brush
9. Uncapping set
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Stainless steel tray
Double frame holding screen plates
(made of stainless steel).
2 units of honey sieves
2 units of uncapping forks (stainless
steel)
10. 2 units of Protective clothing
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Strong safety hood
Handy gloves
Pockets (securing hive tools
& bee brush)
Very strong zip to join hood
and overal
White in colour – friendly to
bees.
11. Honey Production Economic
10 CAB Hives kit
10 Kgs per harvest per hive
6 harvest times a year
6 x 10Kgs = 60Kgs
60Kgs x $6.00 x 10hives = $3,600.00annually
NB: Based on the African bee - this is only achievable with
the CAB model of most recent Improved Langstroth hive and the
yields have been calculated on the lower side
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