It is the Beekeeping Cooperative of the Calchaquíes Valleys, located in the colorful and tourist locality of Amaicha of the Valley, to 2,200 meters (1,5 miles) on the level of the sea. The INTA collaborates.

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Aurelia Higueras Ramirez beekeeper and president of the Committee Apis Cañete, won the prize in the 5º national Prize Santander Banefe

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A new beekeeping project launched by the East Hebron Area Development Programme (ADP) will allow 80 local women to establish their own business and help support their families. Eighty enthusiastic women joined the project. Each one paid US$150 amounting to about US$ 13,000 to which the ADP added US$ 50,000. The money was used to purchase 240 beehives, protective suites and hire an experienced agronomist who has a long experience in establishing beehives.

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Colonies of the bee-killing mite found in two apiaries near Stoke were confirmed in laboratory results yesterday. The outbreak has sunk hopes that the mite could be kept out of the South Island. Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry officials are trying to find out the extent of the outbreak.

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State investigators are threatening fines after finding trace amounts of antibiotics in honey imported from China. Four of the 14 Chinese samples showed levels of the substance 'fluoroquinolones,' ranging from 5 ppb, or parts per billion, to 93 ppb. Agriculture Commissioner Charlie Bronson has asked the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, which aided in the testing, to consider banning future imports if more testing shows positive results.

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From 2 to 4 p.m. July 9 at Jarrett Prairie Center in Byron. To sign up, call 815-234-8535, ext. 200.

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Denunciation that the Ministry of Agriculture has approved “without guarantees” a National Program of fight against of the honey bees diseases, because it does not create the specific lines of financing that guarantee their viability and its success.

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Organized by the apicultural advice of the city of Malargüe and the companies´development service of the local Municipality, June 24th 2006. It qualifies for the renovation of the National Registry of Apicultural Producers.

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The good news has its less lucky part since the spring and the beginning of the summer are the times at which, in the urban surroundings, the cases of problems with the bees are concentrated. Julen Sa'inz, beekeeper recognizes that this spring has been special and that has had extra work throughout the last weeks having retired clusters in too domestic zones.

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Organized by the Faculty of Agrarian Sciences of the University of Conception of Uruguay Province of Entre Ríos. Professor Eng. Agr. Juan Manuel Saeta, beginning of classes July 01, 2006.

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