Recent Advances in Global Meliponiculture

In tandem with the recent surge in interest by various industry players in meliponiculture that see the rapid expansion of the stingless industry globally, there is a need to disseminate new knowledge and research findings in stingless beekeeping. The demand for honey-based products and related activities in meliponiculture opens many opportunities and new challenges in the stingless bee industry that require answers and solutions. Recent Advances in Global Meliponiculture highlights the most recent work on meliponine and meliponiculture. It disseminates information, shares recent works, and fosters a global network on stingless bee research. Covering topics such as pollination services, vertical hive technology, and honey applications, this premier reference source is an essential resource for practitioners, meliponists, apiarists, students and educators of higher education, librarians, researchers, and academicians.

Jumadil Saputra is a Ph.D. holder and works as a senior lecturer in the Department of Economics, Faculty of Business, Economics, and Social Development, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, Malaysia. Currently, he has supervised and graduated 21 undergraduate students for completing the final year project and a total of 8 undergraduate students in progress completing their final year project. For the postgraduate student, he has supervised 5 master students, and 45 Ph.D. students with 9 students are role as the main supervisor. Further, there are 20 students, supervisory, and 15 internship students. He is a co-researcher for 12 grants, which is the university, national and international levels. Besides, starting from 2018 to 2020, he has published 265 articles journal and proceedings Scopus and 27 WoS articles journal and proceedings indexed. His research areas are Quantitative Economics (Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, and Economic Development), Econometrics (Theory, Analysis, and Applied), Islamic Banking and Finance, Risk and Insurance, Takaful, i.e., financial economics (Islamic), mathematics and modeling of finance (Actuarial), Qualitative and Quantitative Research.(a9353ea8-8354-48f4-af0b-06026b20d8fd)