Argentine Beekeeping - Bees and Pollen

ROYAL JELLY PRODUCTION
Market and Harvest Method in Argentina
Update on December 10, 1998

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November of 1998.
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INDEX

Royal Jelly Market in Argentina

Production Method of Royal Jelly

Introduction to the Pollen Universe

Flora and Beehives Handling in saline lands

Taking the Beekeeping pulse From Buenos Aires

EDITORIAL
"Truco a las pardas!"
(Like "double or quits") (The "Truco" is a very popular game of cards in the Argentina.)
To understand the fall of the honey price, in the last 24 months, it implies the knowledge and handling of so many variables as grains of flour it can be in a sack. To speculate on their future projection is a true chimera.
When many believed that the globalization would reveal the markets, it would balance the production costs at world level, it would favor the planning in the productive sectors and it would facilitate the transactions shortening the commercialization chains; everything seems to indicate, at least for us looking from the primary productive sector, that is exactly the contrary.
Countless factors and actors are those responsible for this situation. If we only limit ourselves to the environment of the own productive sector, besides making us incur in an analysis error and of projection of results, unnecessarily it can face those with those that we could sit down to negotiate.
For that reason, far from turn back to this topic, in the last numbers of "Espacio Apícola" we insist in the diversifying production necessity. We need to generating us different alternative and not to be exclusively subject to a honey production.

Mainly for some problems of health in our family and the slump that it provoked us the death of our friend Frati Quiroga, made us to be delayed with Espacio Apícola's number. We apologize them.

Regarding the "Expo-Apícola Río Cuarto'99", we will make it like in previous years, this time with the collaboration of the close group of beekeepers that united around Rafael Frati Quiroga and with his wife, Mónica, that pleasant she was added to our team. The �7th Fair and Beekeeping Meeting of the Center of the Republic� - Expo-Apícola Río Cuarto�99, will be carried out in homage to its first maker, the Atty. Rafael Frati Quiroga, recently deceased. The place is already given, it lacks to sign, and we come profiling the topics for some months.
It also arrived to our editorial the confirmations of the exhibitions of "Maci" and "Rafaela" cities, those that we will announce in our next copy of ends of January 99.
Happy and abundant crop for all!, althouágh many in the Center-north of the Country are already swiming in honey!, receive you the cover as our desire of peace and prosperity for next year.
The director
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Royal Jelly Market in Argentina

It is POSSIBLE to COMPETE
Several factors and from different points of view impelled us to recapture the treatment of this thematic one.
At first place, Fernando Morán of"La Casa de la Miel"(The House of the Honey), one of the most traditional and serious trade in the downtown of Buenos Aires, speaking about the Royal Jelly market he commented us: "I have serious doubts about the Royal Jelly quality coming from China and, to weigh that they have permanent stock and a price of 100 dollars per kilograms, I prefer to pay a better price in exchange for the security and tranquility that give me the local producers who supply me for many years, and with whose product I has not problems with the demanding clientele of our business."
From this significant sentence, the article relate the possibilities that has the Argentinean producer, to harvest and to sell Royal Jelly into a market that demands good quality.

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Production Method of Royal Jelly

We listen Mr. Robera taking about a simplified production method of Royal Jelly, last September in Chivilcoy meeting. Besides this interesting conference "Espacio Apícola" traveled expressly to "25 de Mayo" to interview Belmar Marchesotti, main supplier of "La Casa de la Miel" (The House of the Honey) colleague and friend of Mr. Robera.
"25 de Mayo" are an important landmark inside the Argentine Beekeeping. There, some people of great importance for the sector, they lived and worked. Mr. Jacinto Naveiro, eminent teacher in queenbees breeding and author of a variety that it achieved from different crossbreeding and that today it prevails in the country thanks to the work of his best pupils (Mr. Ricardo Prieto, Mr. Daniel Massello, and others); Mr. Moisés Katzenelson (Engineer Agr.) to who we had the pleasure of interviewing in 1993 (ref. Espacio Apícola N� 11) or the �blacksmith� Mr. Orsi whose tools recently now some other are able to imitate.
We share an intense day that began at six in the morning and it concluded near 21 Hs.
The extensive note, with graphics and pictures, it shows the whole productive process. It is useful so much for the beginners as for the most skilful.

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Introduction to The Pollen Universe
Dr. WINGENROTH
For many years the beekeeping Teacher Rosa Irene Psarudakis, of Mendoza (Argentina), she made big efforts so that "Espacio Apícola" people, they took contact with Mónica Cristina Wingenroth.
This year Dr. Wingenroth, accompanied by Psarudakis and a nurtured delegation of beekeepers from Mendoza, participated during three days of the Meeting in San Francisco (Arg.), where we could begin a first dialogue.
Mónica is a Doctor in Biological Sciences, specialized in Palynology. She studies the pollen of current and last plants.
She works in the "Instituto Argentino de Nivología, Glaciología y Ciencias Ambientales" of the "Centro Regional de Investigaciones Científicas y Tecnológicas, CRICYT (Regional Center of Scientific and Technological Investigations).
At times of the exhibition organized by the Municipality of Lavalle, in Mendoza Province, we travel with the intention to interview with her and to know more than close herr work.
Besides the important books published on her palynological investigations, her weatherbeaten hands, her option to live far from the city beside the river in the hillside of the mountain, her own immense herbarium, those more than 600 varieties of plants collected by her, are faithful reflection of a long, intense, passionate and fruitful investigative activity.
We visit her Laboratory, where the people accustomed to see her arrive in her old "Citro�n" every morning and at any hour of day or night, Saturdays and Sundays included, when she needs to appeal at microscope, to her database or bringing samples after a week of expedition. Then, she received us in her house, we walk beside the river recognizing different plants varieties and we go into a little in her great love, the mountain, where she taught us to discover the rich and abundant vegetation of the colossal Andes mountain range.

The extensive note is about flowers, the Pollen!! and the Pollen study importance in different sciences (Paleo-climates, Melito-palynology, Allergies, etc.)
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Flora and Beehives Handling in saline lands

The coupling of the "Monte Chaqueño Occidental" (degraded xerophilus plants area) with the "Salinas Grandes" (Big Salines) basin attract yearly, at west of north Cordovan mountain cords, bigger number of beekeepers with disparate results.
Although disparity of results is frequent in our activity in almost all beekeeping regions of the country, this area is characterized by extreme disparities due to different factors.
CLIMATE
The stimulating climate of Córdoba, as much for people as for bees, is frequent climatic changes attributed.

These variations due because the Province is at 480 km of the Atlantic Ocean and 520 km of the Pacific Ocean and a half distance of low pressure centers in the north and south extremity of the country.
Córdoba is in halfway of four permanent or almost permanents climatic action centers: anticyclones (high atmospheric pressure centers) of Atlantic and Pacific and depressions of Northwest and South extremity of the country.
The advantage of one of these centers on other, added to the vertebrate provincial topography by several mountain cords from north to south, produces a great microclimate variety and accented differences in little traveled distance.

"For example in "Deán Funes" area that is 689 above the sea level (689 a.s.l.), a frequent step of many beekeepers..."
The article makes an itemized analysis of the climate and the flowering characteristic of the "Salinas Grandes" (Big Salines) basin, very felt like by the beekeepers that, for these latitudes (30� South) they begin the work with beehives in August, when newly it is averaging winter!!.

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Taking the Beekeeping pulse From Buenos Aires

With the habitual support of "La Pampa" Province Government, giving from beginnings to the organization of the "Doblas" fair and meeting, the Cooperative of Drinkable Water and other Services of Doblas Ltd. it received the support of a great number of merchants and industrial of the sector, as well as of a nurtured public coming from different points of the area... Taking us the pulse to the influence region, seeing which are topics that worry beekeepers, we interview Mario Iaconis, pupil of the journalist and beekeeping teacher of "Bahía Blanca" city and indefatigable promoter of the Doblas Meeting, Rodolfo José Allo... "Espacio Apícola : Why did you come to the Doblas Expo? Mario Iaconis: I came to acquire a little more experience..." In an interesting report, Mario, made reference to different test with feeders to provide pollen substitutes to beehives and of a very simple device for Formic acid application...
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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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