According to Regulation (EC) No 852/2004 the development, dissemination and use of both national and Community Guides to Good Practice must be encouraged. However, these guides may be used on a voluntary basis by food business operators.

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The lack of pasture and spraying because of the intense cultivation of soybeans caused the deaths of hundreds of hives in the area of Rio Cuarto in southern provinces. This was assured radio LV16 the beekeeper Hector Galetto, who noted that the average annual production of honey was 40 pounds per hive and today barely 10 kilos. In addition Galetto blamed largely to the process of advance of the soybean orchards with the pressing problem.

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The cooperative The Azahares of Saladas is exporting honey to Germany in hard and intense work , as producers is due to the work being conducted jointly with the exporting company. Such is the case that Guillermo Rolón, of the Apicultural Cooperative said that the demand from abroad grew considerably. 'The harvest this year was better to previous years,' he said. He noted further that there are Bella Vista producers who sold in Croatia and Germany at very reasonable prices these products.

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On 18 and April 19 will take place at the headquarters of IPAF NEA, a workshop on the production of meliponas, its management characteristics and potential for the northeast Formosa, in charge of Engineer Igor Shevelev Fleischer.

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The commission decided to ask Agriculture reports to the Northern Trust SA, before issued regarding the cancellation of the debts that keep beekeeping producers , pursuant to Resolution No. 329/06 of the Ministry of Production, the bill that was driven by Jorge Guc and Miguel Melar

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Paper prepared by Kilicoglu B, Kismet K, Kilicoglu SS, Erel S, Gencay O, Sorkun K, Erdemli E, Akhan O, Akkus MA and Sayek I

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Meeting Tuesday at Oregon State University, farmers and others said yields would drop by 70 percent in some cases without the pollination of bees trucked from region to region. 'We need them to help us,' said Mike Omeg, a cherry orchardist from The Dalles. Farmers, processors and marketers called on OSU to hire a honeybee specialist to join national research into what's been called 'colony collapse disorder,' a strange phenomenon in which worker bees abruptly disappear and presumably die. Beginning in October 2006, some U.S. beekeepers began reporting colony losses of 30 percent to 90 percent. Losses in the Northwest haven't been as catastrophic, but a Yakima beekeeper who supplies hives to Oregon cranberry growers said he lost 4,000 of 13,000 hives in January.

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The International Bee Researchers Association(IBRA) together with the University of Helsinki organized a 10 days workshop during August 2008 . Almost all the expenses in Finland are covered by the registration fee. There are a few grants available for gifted students. In order to maintain high quality practice, only 16 participants will be accepted.

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Pilar Velasco-Munoz Ledo, General Director of Administration School at the University of Veracruz, said that students who aspire to enter this house of studies do not know take the offer of new careers and continue trying to enter traditional careers despite the these labor market is saturated. Beekeeping For example, after two years of call has no students.

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Statements made by the Agricultural Engineer Milton Wise responsible for the Beekeeping sector in the SAGPyA, published by the newspaper 'El Apicultor' referring to his suggestion that beekeepers should sell their honey to exporters for alleged health problems, inexistent in the country: 'We be alert to the sanitary measures, the beekeeper must sell before the inspection of European honey, which is the June 17 ',' Not going to be something that we pass it on nitrofurans, 'provoked a strong reaction in the sector, which even came to ask for the resignation of the officer. He was not present last weekend at the Apicultural Fair of Maciá.

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