The union of beekeepers in the Paris region has organized a beekeeping course yesterday in the forest of Marly.

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Mr Van Der Woude said it would not be long before the Tasmanian honey industry's fate is sealed - if the pest worms its way into queen bee imports from interstate. 'There are already confirmed reports of Varroa mite in hives and crops in Papua New Guinea and New Zealand,' Mr Van Der Woude said. 'It's only a hop from there to Australia. 'On the mainland there are already two new pests or diseases that are not in Tasmania, Nosema ceranae and the hive beetle.' As a result of these discoveries, he said the Tasmanian Beekeepers Association has been forced to start a survey of hives to see if Tasmania has the Nosema ceranae disease.

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The Secretariat for Promoting Agriculture and the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries, Food and Rural Development, in Baja California will boost production of honey. In the state produced about 100 tonnes of honey and exported about 25 Cota said Cesar Gomez, owner of the agricultural system of Sagarpa.

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The municipal presidency through the Rural Development Division and in coordination with the Secretariat of Agricultural Development (SDA) and SAGARPA, carried out the delivery of the project 'Production of honey', in the town of Las Poppies. The projects are through the program municipalization Alliance for the field in Guanajuato 2007, in support of the Rural Investment Project (PAP) and are intended to encourage investment in capital assets of the rural population eligible for support through the making Progress in productive projects to enable the application of appropriate technologies.

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The Canadian Honey Council (CHC) has approached federal Minister of Agriculture Gerry Ritz for $50 million in immediate relief and $10 million in research funding over several years to assist the industry in recovery.

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Following the scandal in which imported eel was disguised as domestic, the government plans to expand the food traceability system that is currently applied only to beef to cover food in general, it has been learned. The Cabinet Office in charge of consumer administration and the Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Ministry are negotiating to include new legislation incorporating the traceability system within the framework of an action plan to bolster consumer protection. The new law is expected to be enacted in 2009 or later. The system enables information to be traced from the production to sales stages by obligating companies to put integrated circuit tags on food and retain sales records for a certain duration. Due to the ease of obtaining producer and distribution-channel information, the traceability system is effective in preventing deceptive labeling of food origin and in lessening public health risks caused by food poisoning or tampering. On the other hand, companies incur expenses from their participation in the system. The government plans to expedite its review of the issue, including the range of food the system would cover.

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On days when temperatures exceed 100 degrees F (37.7 degrees Celsius), bees collect more water to cool the hive to protect the brood (immature bees) and ward against a meltdown, says UC Davis bee specialist Susan Cobey, 'Bees reduce their flight activity for nectar and pollen, but collect more water. They spread droplets of water and then fan their wings to ventilate and cool the hive.'

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Adee Honey Farms in Bruce bees were in California, all ready to go into the almond groves for pollination work, something they do in the winter, when they're not making honey. Over 28,000 of the Adees' 60,000 colonies, < 40 percent, had collapsed. Adee said the bees were now back to about 90 percent of their numbers 'and looking pretty good. We feel that next year we'll be at 100 percent or better.' He added that Adee Honey Farms is 'the largest in the world; normally we run 80,000 colonies.

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Wild blueberry growers this year expect to produce as much as 80 million to 100 million pounds ( 33,600 A 42,000 tons) ? a near record yield. The most recent record harvest was 111 million pounds (46,620 tons) in 2000. David Yarborough, professor of horticulture and blueberry specialist with the University of Maine Cooperative Extension, said 'There were a total of 69,288 hives in the state for pollination'.

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