While drought and then heavy rains would have generated a loss of about 20,000 hectares of maize, in contrast, the bee industry would have a significant increase both in production and in prices, which will generate revenues for 6000 beekeepers, said Edilberto Rosado Mendez, secretary of Rural Development.

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A forest fire in certain proportions will be launched today Friday in an inhospitable place for the dry forests that surround the road Piura - Chulucanas. In this case, and 10 claims add up over the last 30 days and that according to Civil Defense, should act to informal producers of honey.

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The world's largest factory is in the Comunitat, specifically in Ayora. It has employed 1,600 million workers and exports its products throughout the world. It is the Apicultural Co-operative Society of Spain and its workers, of course, bees, with their enormous effort that generated 2.5 million kilos of honey each year.

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After four years of thorough study and exhaustive analysis of 95 samples of the product, the team's research area and Bromatology Nutrition at the University of Burgos has developed a novel method for the characterization and identification of the honey Burgos by odors. Inmaculada Martin, author of the thesis' geographic characterization of honey from the province of Burgos, 'says regarding the new system 'allows to distinguish honey according to their geographical origin in a fast, simple and unambiguous, saving time and money.' According to Martin, 'until now had to analyze the grains of pollen in order to know what flowers had libado bees, a process that requires expertise and that implies great variability, because the plants do not produce the same amount of pollen in all stations. '

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Organized by the Uruguay Apicultural Society on october 25,2008

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The Andalucía Honey Fair opens its doors today in Lanjarón Saturday and remain open until next Monday in a ship hired by the owner of the spa. In parallel, will be held the XIII Technical Symposium of Beekeeping and the XI Honey Competition of Andalusia. In Andalusia, there are some 3,200 beekeepers in the 400 are from Granada, in total, have about 40,000 hives that occur each year some 600,000 kilograms of honey from different varieties.

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Imported a total of 11,979 tons (+20.95%) valued at U.S.$ 24.97 million (+63.68%), to a value per tonne U.S.$ 2,084 (+35%). Accumulated in the year were imported 66,758 tonnes (+1.5%) with a total value of U.S.$ 142.22 million (+39.11%) to a value of U.S.$ 2,130 per ton (+36.9%). All values compared to the same period last year.

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A spoonful of sugar may help the medicine go down, but what if the sweet stuff is the medicine? Sounds too good to be true, but the evidence is piling up that honey has some real medical value, especially for healing wounds and burns. When it comes to other bee products, however, be wary. Much of the buzz around royal jelly, bee venom, and propolis may be more scientific fiction than fact. U.S. News scoured the medical literature to find five situations in which today's best scientific evidence suggests that our six-legged, pollen-toting pals can help, and five for which the jury's still out.

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Reaches 7 thousand 500 pesos (U.S.$ 2,300) and must be submitted to the Secretary of Production in Reconquista. For producers with fewer than 200 bee hives.

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17 and Oct. 18 in Natal (RN), representatives of the units of Sebrae of the nine northeastern states will meet to harmonize the strategies of implementing the tax on circulation of goods and services, ICMS, along the chain Production of beekeeping in the region. The initiative came from the Public Policy Unit of the Sebrae in Edmonton, in collaboration with the Office of Collective Care Agribusiness of the institution. The differentiation of VAT in the region by migratory beekeeping, inhibits the growth of the sector. Migratory beekeeping is actually transporting the hives from one region to another, following flowering, with increased production of honey and better pollination.

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