Producers
Kabi Habin
beekeeping producer cooperative · organic-honey producer · honey collector and marketer
Blanca Flor, Bacalar Municipality, Quintana Roo, Mexico
Kabi Habin, S.P.R. de R.L.
Kabi Habin is a Maya beekeeping organization based in Blanca Flor, in western Bacalar Municipality, Quintana Roo, Mexico. It is a rural production society that organizes organic honey production, collection, and marketing for a network of Maya producers in the Bacalar area.
About the Producer
A little history
The cooperative was formally constituted as a Sociedad de Producción Rural in 1996 in the ejido of Blanca Flor. Group formation and training began in the early 1990s, followed by a shift from conventional to organic honey production and international marketing around 2000. Sources differ on the dates of activity before incorporation, so 1996 remains the supported formal founding date.
How They Work
Beekeeping in practice
Kabi Habin is a producer cooperative and rural production society. Member beekeepers manage apiaries and harvest honey, which goes to the cooperative collection center for aggregation, quality control, and commercial marketing. Its principal product is certified organic honey, sold through commercial and export relationships rather than as honey from a single estate.
Blanca Flor, Bacalar Municipality, Quintana Roo, Mexico
Current producer profile and a 2025 Quintana Roo government attendee roster place Kabi Habin in Blanca Flor, Bacalar.
Western Bacalar / Poniente de Bacalar, Quintana Roo, Mexico
Academic research describes Kabi Habin as a cooperative of producers from several communities in the Poniente de Bacalar microrregion. This supports regional producer/apiary activity, not a claim that all honey originates in every named community.
Multiple Maya communities in Bacalar Municipality, Quintana Roo, Mexico
Research reports that production and harvest occur through associates' household units across member communities, followed by delivery to the cooperative collection center.
European export markets
Academic sources document export of Kabi Habin organic honey, particularly to European markets; specific destination markets and volumes vary by source and period.
Products & Specimens
What connects to this producer
Products listed by the Producer are kept separate from specimens held in the Collection.
Organic multifloral honey
Floral source: Multiflora / multiple floral sources
Documented origin: Blanca Flor, Bacalar, Quintana Roo, Mexico
Origin detail: Locality
The producer profile lists multiflora among Kabi Habin's packaged organic-honey varieties and labels the product origin as Blanca Flor, Bacalar, Quintana Roo. This is a producer/profile-level origin statement; it does not establish that every individual jar or harvest was collected solely within Blanca Flor.
Guano honey
Floral source: Guano (as named by the seller/profile; botanical identification not established in consulted sources)
Documented origin: Blanca Flor, Bacalar, Quintana Roo, Mexico
Origin detail: Locality
A producer profile lists guano as a Kabi Habin variety and gives Blanca Flor, Bacalar, Quintana Roo as product origin. Product-specific forage-site boundaries were not found.
Shalán honey
Floral source: Shalán (as named by the seller/profile; botanical identification not established in consulted sources)
Documented origin: Blanca Flor, Bacalar, Quintana Roo, Mexico
Origin detail: Locality
A producer profile lists shalán as a Kabi Habin variety and gives Blanca Flor, Bacalar, Quintana Roo as product origin. Product-specific forage-site boundaries were not found.
Chechén honey
Floral source: Chechén (as named in a third-party retail listing; botanical identification not established here)
Documented origin: Quintana Roo, Mexico
Origin detail: Region
A third-party listing identifies Kabi Habin-brand organic honey in chechén and guano variants and says it is made in Quintana Roo. This is weaker retail evidence and does not establish a narrower collection locality.
People
People connected to the work
- Agustín Tun Uh Publicly listed participant for S.P.R. Kabi Habin
- Agustín Tun Hu Honey collector for Kabi Habin (reported 2018)
Practices
How they work
- Certified organic production
- Cooperative aggregation through a collection center
- Training focused on organic honey and wax quality
- Member-based technical and organizational training