In February, the value of exports of honey in the country reached US $ 2.1 million, 2.8% higher than it exported the previous month and 142% higher than the same month of 2007. The average price last month was $ 1.92 per kilogram, the best of the past three years. Exports of honey to the United States were $ 1.83 million, 87% of the total sold by the country in foreign markets.

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The Cooperative Euromiel has exported for the first time, 1,000 kilograms of fresh frozen pollen to -20 degrees centigrade to Japan, a country in which the agency has 'great expectations'. He indicated in the magazine of the Union of Agrarian Cooperatives Extremadura manager Euromiel, Ramon Rodriguez, is the first time that this cooperative exports its products to Japan, thereby expanding its market clients, which include mostly countries like Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Austria and the United Kingdom, among others.

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Organized by Apimondia, the Italian Beekeepers? Federation ? FAI and the The Honey Research Centre from june 9 to 12, 2008 in Roma.

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Commission Decision 2008/105/EC amended by Commission Decision 2008/222/EC

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Beekeepers are very happy as today a kilo of honey was payd $ 21 (US$ 1.95), a price that until a few days ago had never met, said Gotthold Beutelspacher, director general of the company Products Selected Southeast, the main exporter of honey. The businessman said that for various reasons until five days ago honey prices reached a record $ 23 (US$ 2.14). 'The price peak before occurred in 2002 when a kilo were paid $ 20 (US$ 1.86). 'Since then had remained between 13 and 16 pesos (US$ 1.21 to 1.49), but this time the cost has increased significantly due to good demand that has influenced, it seems, because Argentina, a major producer of honey in the world, along with Mexico decreased sales by unclear circumstances. '

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That is the tradition that is celebrated in Chichicastenango, because, according to residents, started in the Last dinner of Jesus. Comentan that before being handed over to the Romans, Jesus shared bread with his disciples. The tradition continued through the years in different parts of the world. In Guatemala this tradition took boom over the past century.

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The allergist Carmen Moreno, head of the unit of immunotherapy of Queen Sofia, today explains this model in the American Congress of Allergy, the most important meeting that is held annually in the United States and that brings together hundreds of experts from around the world in the treatment This type of allergy. The event takes place in Baltimore, the Johns Hopkins University Asthma and Allergy Center.

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An investigation completed this month, Embrapa Pantanal of Corumba (MS), a unit of the Brazilian Enterprise for Agricultural Research, affiliated with the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply (MAPA) reveals that the majority of wild honey produced in Nhumirim, the Pantanal Nhecolândia of present patterns of comparative quality to the standards set by the legislation.

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The Food and Veterinary Office (FVO) has scheduled 256 audits and inspections for 2008. In the European Union 64%; EFTA countries, 2%; 4% will take place in candidate countries, and 30% in other third countries (Table 7, page 10)

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It exported 4,809 tons with a value of $ 9.88 million at an average of $ 2,055 per ton. Destinations Germany 68.62%, Britain 8.01%, Italy 7.78% France 6.74%, Australia 2.37%, the other 6.47%

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