Organized by APACAME on july 01, 2009

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The journalist Federico Petrera (s) and the agronomist Javier Folgar Besone comment on Mr Enrique Soto, who spoke on behalf of beekeepers in the province of Buenos Aires when announced helps for the industry affected by the drought. He is not registered, as required in existing regulations set in the National Register of Apicultural Producers (RENAPA), plus lack of representativeness in the sector.

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The bees are disappearing. In recent years all over the world, millions of hives have been decimated. The apocalyptic scenario is for insects and also for humanity. In Portugal the bee population has been declining, but Vilas Boas believes that "there has been no outbreak as a mortal in other countries." This is confirmed by John Casaca of the National Federation of Beekeepers (FNAP). "Across the country, only one was reported in a beekeeper who saw their hives completely decimated." But concern is also varroasis force between the national beekeepers. Taking into account the report of the Ministry of Agriculture, only between 2004 and 2007 there was a deficit of 3.5 billion bees.

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Hand-pollinating cucumbers, pumpkins and squash is a simple technique that comes in handy when Mother Nature doesn’t keep up her end of the bargain by providing bees, butterflies and the rest of the critters that are a necessary ingredient to have fruit on our veggie plants and trees.

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According to the manager of Apicetti, Amilkar Torrico, people think that organic products in this case the bee products should be consumed only in the winter, so it is necessary to inform that these products should be consumed throughout the year. For this reason, several products were created based on honey, pollen, propolis, royal jelly and wax as functional foods, medicines and cosmetics, the company orureña so that people are aware of the importance of natural and organic products.

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Beekeeping in Chiapas is the best competition nationally and internationally, producing 2,869 tons per cycle, while working to strengthen it, reported the Department of Economics. The delegate of the unit, Raul Ramirez Elizalde, noted that the state has a total of 75,654 hives in this sector and currently ranks eighth nationally. The federal official noted that currently engage in this activity an average of 1,749 beekeepers on a permanent basis.

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Apples and honey bees have a definite connection says an Austin Peay State University professor. And that connection has been broken in Afghanistan said Sgt. Robert Moore, adjunct agriculture professor since 2007. “Before 1979, Afghanistan exported 60 percent of its apple crop – now the country has to import apples,” said Moore who has been deployed since February with the Tennessee Army National Guard 1-16th Agri-business Development Team.

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The Center for Research and Promotion (ICCP), along with the Mayor of Charagua, trained by the project Apichan, seven guaraníes communities of this municipality to improve the production of honey. The first phase began with conducting various workshops for about 500 families on the methods of capturing bees, their breeding and feeding, plus the development of swarms and the extraction of honey.

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The Secretariat of Agriculture, through the Provincial Directorate of Agriculture, invites aspiring bee health inspectors (ISAs) to participate in a selection of students for training evaluations that will enable them as such.

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The varroa mite parasite that's been killing bees across the country is spreading on the Big Island, threatening local fruit and macadamia nut industries. The tiny bug has escaped a quarantine area around Hilo and spread to Hamakua and Puna.

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