How would be a world without bees? Good, the days of field would be easier - without preoccupations by the stings; but it would be much more difficult to fill the basket of food. The plants that produce many of our fruits and vegetables depend on the bees for the pollinizatión.

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Total honey exports up to june 30, 2006: bulk 55,833 Tons (+ 3.4% ) , US$ 76.9M (+14.5% ) , average price 1,378 US$ per ton ; packed 300 Tons (-5%), US$ 0,58M (-17.0%) , average price US$1.929 per ton. Destiny 69% Europe, 28% USA.

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A delegation of Bee Keeper Association have arrived in Kabul held discussions with top officials of the government. Head of the association Haji Mohammad Naeem Babakarkhel told news agency in Kabul they had started negotiations with the relevant departments regarding setting up bee-farms here.

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The technician of the INTA Famaillá, Tucumán, affected to the development of the Pro API Program, Enrique Berrascabure, next to the person in charge of the area of Network of Schools, Cecilia Dini, who is consulting external of the CFI, was yesterday in Santiago del Estero to analyze the march of the Apicultural Conglomerate of the NOA. The objective of this project is to manage help to the small apicultural producers in all the productive chain, from the production to the commercialization.

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Can-Trace has released a new set of food traceability guidelines designed to be more inclusive to the industry as a whole, from mom-and-pop grocers to mega-chains like Wal-Mart. The standard is voluntary.

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The authorities of the Main directorate of Firemen of Estelí are worried about the increase of bees´clusters in the different city districts , which also has registered a sensible rise in the number of affected people.

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Jacqueline Cossairt's SUV slammed into the tree after she lost control on a gravel road about 10 miles south of Fort Wayne. 'Those bees were mad,' said Volunteer Fire Chief Kent Gilbert, who was stung at least 50 times while trying to pull the 16-year-old driver from the wreckage. 'I've never seen bees, especially honeybees, attack like that.'

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With a maxmun capacity of 1,200 attendants, up to date 1,000 persons already made the inscriptions as informed by the Chilean Beekeeping coordinator Ms. Jeannette Danty Larraín

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Ashburton beekeeper Geoff Bongard said this summer’s honey harvest would be unaffected but beekeepers were preparing for hard times in the years to come. Beekeepers will downsize the number of their hives because of the costs and manpower involved in treating and controlling the mite. Most beekeepers had about 800 hives per worker in their business, but they would drop to around 500 once varroa was established. Chemical treatment will be around NZ$ 75 (US$ 46) per hive in the first year as mite numbers build in hives. Annual costs thereafter should drop to NZ$ 50 (US$ 31)

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Supported by money from the Golden LEAF Foundation, 250 new beekeepers received free hives in North Carolina last year. That has helped boost membership in the North Carolina State Beekeepers Association by more than 60 percent. There are now over 2-thousand beekeepers in the organization .The free hive program didn't get funding this year. Still, the number of North Carolina beekeepers continues to grow.

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