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Re:Manuka, the World’s Most Coveted Honey (2018) by rimutaka on Friday November 06, 2020 @07:39PM (#25012427)
> NZ manuka honey is now also riven by violent gang crime cashing in on the huge profits. Hive stealing is a thing.

I'd like to see a proof of that. The industry is very consolidated with a few dominant players and a lot of small beekeepers who happened to have manuka on their private land. It went through a boom, prices crashed and most unsavory operators moved on. There may be some opportunistic hive stealing, but that always existed even before manuka was the thing.

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Re:Manuka, the World’s Most Coveted Honey (2018) by ggm on Friday November 06, 2020 @07:50PM (#25012472)
Headlines stop around 2019. So you're probably right, it's old news. And, to be fair, it happens/happened here too: https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2018-02-27/beekeepers-call...
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Re:Manuka, the World’s Most Coveted Honey (2018) by EdwardDiego on Saturday November 07, 2020 @02:50AM (#25013712)
Anecdotally, (as in, what I hear on the local grapevine) it's still going on. Intimidation, hive destruction etc.
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