?I lost more (honey bees) last winter than I?ve ever lost. I don?t know what it was, they just disappeared,? said Montrose beekeeper Deward Hedrick. Hedrick has been taking care of bees since he was about 6 years old; he?s now 93. He had checked his hives and all seemed healthy. However, when he checked on them several weeks later, he was met with an eerie silence.

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Under the bee Expo held in the town of Malabrigo, last Saturday took on the symbolic appropriation for beekeeping projects, for a total of $ 118,700 (U.S. $ 38,290). Were responsible for the symbolic delivery, the President of Adepro / ADR. Alberto Navarro, Mr. Zorzón Amado, a member of the Board and the Manager of the institution. Miguel Sanchez. Was accompanied by representatives of municipalities and communities in the area.

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207 beekeepers enjoy in the current year, supports a $ 1.5 million (U.S. $ 150,000), reported Serafin Peace Garibay. The delegate from the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Rural Development, Fisheries and Food (SAGARPA) mentioned that in the capital there are more than four thousand hives. He said that beekeepers defeños produce more than 117 tons of honey annually, whose value is estimated at five million 890 thousand pesos (U.S. $ 590,000).

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Beekeepers in the province consolidate the production of honey with exportable quality, while growing collection in the first half in more than 26 tons in connection with similar stage of 2007. During that period the result was nearly 153 tons, which exceeded the forecast at ten percent.

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At the official opening of the ninth Ibero-American Congress of Apiculture, the Fourth National Symposium of Beekeeping, the First National Sample bee products and ApiExpo in the City of Concepcion Minister of Agriculture Marigo Hornkohl before the national directors of INDAP and INI, noted that the target for 2020 is to move from the today US$ 18 million being exported to 80 .

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The cooperative Benicarló Benihort participates along with the cooperative Llutxent, the Union of El Perello and Protective Union of Mareny Barraqueta in a study on the influence and quantification of pollination by insects in kind of horticultural products and aromatic plants. In Benicarlo there are already distributed hives in some farms engaged in the production of melons. The proposal for the study was once detected low fertilization by bees and linked as a possible cause of the decline in production that was suffering in some previous years. A paper published by La Unió estimated at 600 million euros annual losses at the lack of pollination. Among the causes which tend to increase this lack of pollen caused by the decline in insect pollinators can find health problems, habitat destruction own bees and environmental pollution among other factors.

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Last Saturday (5), the Municipality of Delmiro Gouveia delivered to the community delmirense the Boards of Fish and storage of honey. The projects were carried out in collaboration with cooperatives, Codevasf agencies and local production of fish farming and beekeeping.

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Next Friday (11) will be inaugurated 11 gathering honey placves for the production of 22 agrarian reform settlements on the coast, rough, and brejo of Paraiba. The project, valued at R $ 180 thousand (U.S. $ 113,000), is the result of a collaboration between the National Institute of Colonization and Agrarian Reform (INCRA) in Paraiba, through Project Earth Sun, and the association for the Advancement of Sustainable Development (Aprodes).

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Organized by the National Institute of Agricultural Technology (INTA) in the city on July 9 on August 22, 2008.

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Officials from the National Company for Agricultural Development-Embrapa in Piaui accompany the national movement, therefore went on strike for an indefinite period since yesterday. They are demanding the payment of readjustment since May, the government has established a 5.04%, with its claim of 12%. All services are paralysed Embrapa in Piaui, except those deemed essential.

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