The specialized journalist Federico Petrera (h) interview in his television program to Dr.Paula Caceres Soto, who spaeks about the support gives by the Institute of Agrarian Development (INDAP) to the small beekeepers.

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Bee pollen is often referred to as nature's most complete food. Pollen harvested from a diverse selection of geographic areas contains all the essential components of life in a good tasting, chewable, easily digested, and highly bio-available form that can be consumed by anyone from young children to the very old. All the nutritive and rejuvenating elements contained in expensive, whole food vitamin pills can be found in bee pollen. Pollen also offers healing, with interesting research studies documenting its medicinal effects.

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Anita Kuswaha, a teenage role model and Unicef poster girl from a poverty-stricken family in a Bihar village, is fighting for survival. The beekeeper is in desperate need of money to revive her apiaries, devastated by floods last year. Anita, now 19, has been keeping bees for a livelihood for the last two years.

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A few weeks ago, 180 of a third-generation beekeeper Roscoe Hall´s hives were lifted over a period of days, a bit of banditry he estimates cost him nearly US$70,000 in lost bees, pollination fees and honey production.

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The Beekeepers Cooperative South (Cooapis), based in Rio Grande inaugurated this Saturday 8, a point of sale at the Fair producer on the beach at Cassino. The Cooperative is supported by the Sebrae / Rs, Beekeeping Federation of Rio Grande do Sul (Farsul) and the National Rural Training (Senar), through the programme 'Together to Compete'

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At £42 (US$ 84.60) for a 120g jar, the world?s most expensive honey recently went on sale in Harrods. Life Mel has a list of purported health benefits as long as your arm , the scientists who created it claim the usual nutritional advantages associated with honey are maximised because the bees that produce it gather pollen from herbs such as Siberian ginseng, echinacea and Uncaria tomentosa that boost the immune system. They say that 2 tsp of Life Mel honey a day, on an empty stomach, sucked slowly, will supply a shot of antioxidants that leave you better able to fight illness and disease.

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Organized by the Group North Las Toscas, with the support of the Apicultural Programme of the Province on March 14, 2007. Speaker Engineer Susana Bruno, a practice field.

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This year we will increase the amount of subsidies granted to all livestock species, so that the sheep-goat ADSG receive an increase of 500,000 euros (10%) of 150,000 euros and veal (10%) ; of 225,000 euros pig (10%); of 278,000 euros of birds (17%); of 25,000 euros of rabbits (25%) and 10,000 euros for bees (16%).

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The federal government through the Secretariat of Agriculture, Livestock, Rural Development, Fisheries and Food (SAGARPA) has launched the program which is to provide livestock direct support to various productive activities: Category A Bees 10 to 175 cores, support unit 75 pesos (US$ 7.00), B-176 bees to 500 thousand kernels, support unit 60 pesos (US$ 5.50).

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Last Thursday the Ministry of Agriculture and Supply, Agriculture and Defense Coordinating CivPol of the 6 th District Health Surveillance of Piracicaba audited a local honey for sale to consumers in the region. According to information from the office of Defense Agriculture (EDA) Piracaiba were found on the premises chemicals indicating that honey was tampered with and adulterated. Among the products found were: Glucose corn powder, essence of honey, orange essence, sugar and tincture of iodine.

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