For difficulties that many producers had to condition their beehives before the winter, added to the temperate temperatures that we have had in the months of June and July, we request to Alejandro Italiano, recently incorporate as Technical Adviser of Ricedal S.A. that offers us his experience before a month of August and usually quite critical September (remember we live in South América) if the beehives were not very provided for the winter and stiller if during the same one they consumed more than the normal.
His contribution, also, outlines us an interesting query to who we sometimes appeal to the famous cakes (patty) and he opens a debate that it will surely be enriched by other colleagues:
-in this article - Alejandro Italiano affirms that it is deceiving to administer pollen substitutes o in "patty" and that this can be cause dysfunctions digestive in the bees.
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POLLEN PRODUCTION: Trap type I.N.R.A.
Writed by Héctor Monti (Agricultural technician)

This roof trap or superior -type INRA - it was incorporate for their experimentation arround the "ENTRE RIOS's APIBOTANIC STUDIES", starting from 1991. The test was made in sixteen apiaries of the Paraná and Concordia's departments of this province. With this trap it could register a maximum yield of 4.600 Kg. of pollen in a season and according to the evaluation with an efficient handling of the same one you can overcome this yield.
Diverse factors intervene to increase the probabilities of success with this trap that we commented later on, graphic material it is also attached for their construction and use way.
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We will go publishing, new comments and notes about different informations.
We also have foreseen to present a listing of topics, articles and authors published in ESPACIO APICOLA in these seven years.
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Cooperatives from Buenos Aires
In the last "expo-miel" of Azul (Southeast of Buenos Aires province - Argentina), "Espacio Apícola" had the opportunity to converse with a group of cooperatives from Buenos Aires. «Group of Cooperative Integration».
This group a couple of years ago is meeting to undertake common projects. In the occasion we speak of provision of inputs, purchase of drums on the whole and a novel commercialization system that will allow them to export directly.
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Sanity without Chemical

Among the assistants to the Meeting in San José (Uruguay) it was Her Eckhardt Kunze with their two children Dieter(right) and Hugo(left).
Eckhardt arrived 40 years ago in the Uruguay and in this moment he began beekeeper. Resided from then in a German colony of "Río Negro"s department, today they are proprietors of around 3000 beehives in a family company.
They work a bee Creole. From a principle the dad worked with it and the children continue with that bee. According to some analyses that have made abroad in several opportunities, they have a predominance of Iberian bee.
They don't carry out any sanitary treatment.
The note narrates its simple work way; for over of all the things they are " BEEKEEPERS ".
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Medical properties of the Beehive: POLLEN

We transcribe part of the cassette of the second conference that the doctor in medicine, Rumanian, Sefan Stângaciu offered us in San Francisco's "Expo-apícola" in the month of May, before more than 300 people that participated from the noon until near 16hs o'clock.
As well as the topic that we try in the previous number was propolis, in this opportunity we will refer mainly to the Pollen.
The beehive like a great natural pharmacy
"The most interesting thing is that the bees are on the earth around about seventy million years and although the dinosaurs and other species have been destroyed, the bees have not extinguished because they are..." -begin Stefan saying before a public that followed it with attention more than 4 followed hours!!
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Uruguay: "Central Apícola Cooperativa" - (Beekeepers Coperative Central)

The Beekeeping Cooperative Central of the Uruguay (Central Apícola Cooperativa), is a cooperative of second degree. It concentrates the 20% of the producers of this country in up to now 12 basic cooperatives members and it markets among 1500 to 1900 annual tons of honey, equivalent also to 20% of the national production (in the Uruguay).
The past 1st and 2nd of August carried out an informative and technical meeting in San José, to some 90 kms of Montevideo, the Capital city of the Oriental Republic of the Uruguay. About a hundred beekeepers attended between partners and delegates of the cooperatives.
"Espacio Apícola" it was specially invited to the encounter and had the opportunity to dialogue in oneself moment with the current president of the "Central", Ernesto Tolstoy (superior picture) and the previous one, Eduardo Baridón (inferior picture).
The note makes reference to the operation of the "Central", its matter forms of work and to the current approached challenges.
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