Producers

Upper Rajang Kelulut Community Producers

community producer collective · stingless-bee honey producers

Kampung Tatai Mas Raweng and Kampung Selirik, Kapit, Sarawak, Malaysia

A collective label for participants in the High Impact Community Project (HICP) supporting sustainable kelulut, or stingless-bee, honey production and commercialisation in Kampung Tatai Mas Raweng and Kampung Selirik, Kapit, Sarawak. The programme includes 50 participants and is overseen by URDA. No separately registered producer business, shared retail brand, or individual member roster has been identified.

From Kampung Tatai Mas Raweng and Kampung Selirik, Kapit, Sarawak, Malaysia Honey Chronicles
Role community producer collective, stingless-bee honey producers
Based in Kampung Tatai Mas Raweng and Kampung Selirik, Kapit, Sarawak, Malaysia

About the Producer

A little history

The collective is documented through a High Impact Community Project launched on November 6, 2025. The RM5.5 million, two-project HICP is funded by TERAJU, with RECODA as strategic partner, Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) as implementing agency, and URDA overseeing participants. Fifty participants take part in the sustainable kelulut-honey production and commercialisation programme in Kampung Tatai Mas Raweng and Kampung Selirik.

How They Work

Beekeeping in practice

This community-based production and commercialisation programme includes 50 kelulut-honey participants overseen by URDA under the HICP. TERAJU funds the two-project initiative, RECODA is its strategic partner, and USM is the implementing agency. A planned Upper Rajang Honey Processing and Marketing Centre in Song is intended as a future hub for processing, marketing, training, and industry development. It should not be treated as the collective's current production address or as proof of any specific honey origin.

Where They Work

Location and reach

World Asia Malaysia

Apiary Or Forage

Kampung Tatai Mas Raweng, Kapit, Sarawak, Malaysia

Named by RECODA as one of two locations for the sustainable kelulut-honey production and commercialisation programme. The source does not provide individual apiary coordinates or forage boundaries.

Apiary Or Forage

Kampung Selirik, Kapit, Sarawak, Malaysia

Named by RECODA as one of two locations for the sustainable kelulut-honey production and commercialisation programme. The source does not provide individual apiary coordinates or forage boundaries.

Other

Song, Sarawak, Malaysia

Bernama reports the planned Upper Rajang Honey Processing and Marketing Centre in Song as a prospective processing, marketing, training, and industry-development hub. This is not evidence that honey is harvested in Song.

Other

Upper Rajang Development Agency region, Sarawak, Malaysia

RECODA describes URDA's development area as encompassing Kanowit, Song, Kapit, Bukit Mabong, and Belaga. This is administrative/programme geography and should not be generalized into a honey-origin claim.

Products & Specimens

What connects to this producer

Products listed by the Producer are kept separate from specimens held in the Collection.

Producer listing

Madu kelulut lestari (sustainable stingless-bee honey)

Documented origin: Kampung Tatai Mas Raweng and Kampung Selirik, Kapit, Sarawak, Malaysia; these are the publicly named locations of the production and commercialisation programme. No individual apiary, harvest lot, floral source, or bottle-specific provenance was located.

Origin detail: Locality

RECODA identifies the programme as production and commercialisation of sustainable stingless-bee honey in the two named communities.

People

People connected to the work

  • Dato Sri Alexander Nanta Linggi Chairman, Upper Rajang Development Agency (URDA)
  • Datuk Haji Ismawi bin Haji Ismuni Chief Executive Officer, Regional Corridor Development Authority (RECODA)

Practices

How they work

  • The HICP honey programme is formally described as the production and commercialisation of “madu kelulut lestari” (sustainable stingless-bee honey). The descriptor is a programme claim; the source does not publish a farm-level sustainability protocol, certification, or audit record for the 50 participants.
  • Upper Rajang community members participated in a RECODA-organised kelulut smart-farming study visit that included sustainable-farming instruction and honey production using the MUSTAFA-Hive. This documents training exposure among a 45-member Upper Rajang group in 2024, not confirmed adoption by every later HICP participant.
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