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PROFESSIONAL HONEY PRODUCTION
How to Harvest 8.000 Kg. of Honey in one Morning?
Update on February 10, 1999

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January of 1999.
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INDEX

Sunflower Pollination in Argentina

Full Time Beekeepers Honey Crop

San Luis (Argentina) Toward Quality Certification

Residuals Determination by Gas Cromatography

Honey Extraction Rooms in Argentina

EDITORIAL We arrive at this time overflowing of happiness because the crops in the center-north of our country was very good and these ones have alleviated the hard situation which many apiaries suffered in last two years. We hope that rains, although late, have composed the situation of the south of "Buenos Aires" and "La Pampa" provinces a little. And, if it doesn't reach to expenses, at least it reaches so that beehives spend well the winter.
Common denominator, of how many places we have visited in these months, it is the honey price. As we have expressed it in the previous number of "Espacio Ap�cola", and after the financial crisis of Brazil, we think that this situation transcends the honey market. The depreciation responds mainly to a global system crisis. This crisis doesn't seem to have solution in a short term and it generates economic and restrictive measures in countries buyers.
To those restrictive measures, imposed by countries buyers, it is necessary to add the current one normative that governs in our country. This doesn't promote the direct commercializations between local producers and foreign buyers. We are very far of many conferences that they insisted us we listened on: International trade; Exports Promotion; that the producer exports its bottled honey, etc...
Maybe the current recycled drums use authorization, after the norm that prohibited these definitively, it be a mentality change sign that the whole sector are also waiting in other items.
Finally it is necessary to say that the �profitable business�, the �market�, from Phoenician's time, it's for businessmans, not for producers. It is necessary to have money to trade; or in the defect to have credit. This case, the business will be for the Bank.
As most of us we doesn't live off rents, neither of the charity of anybody, in these joints we have to think how to gleaning us. For that reason "ESPACIO APICOLA" comes working on different axes:
1�. We look for to optimize honey production methods lowering these cost. We guide ourselves, starting from a responsible practice, toward a low cost of quality certification, to conserve the preference of the market in front of other competitors.
2�. We offer tools to diversify the production according to preference, possibilities and convenience of each one; like it can be the Royal Jelly production and the Pollen Crop.
3�. We generate a space so that all we know, and it will be known in the entire world, the important investigation works that careful Argentinean professionals are developing.
These three axes will be present in the �7th Fair and Beekeeping Meeting of the Center of the Republic� Expo-Apícola Río Cuarto�99.
At these time we will surely have time to debating many other topics and mainly to share the friendship. Go getting ready, already lack a little. In the next issue we will publish the schedule of activities and other informations.
The director
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Sunflower Pollination in Argentina

At first days of January we visit the operations center of the Beekeeping Department of Dekalb, recently acquired for Monsanto's group, in the town of "Gral. Villegas", Buenos Aires province.
There Juan Werbowecki, beekeeping manager, received us. We visit several pollination fields with him and we converse on requirements that the company has for beekeepers that lend them service.
There exist two types of cultivations for technicians in the matter. One of commercial production and other of seed production basically.

Both need a pollination agent action because the sunflower pollen is so much heavy and precise pollinators insects, because it can not be dragged by the wind.
The note makes reference to the whole activity that develops this Department with beehives and with hired beekeepers.
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Full Time Beekeepers Honey Crop

There are many and varied work methods in the country and specifically of honey crop.
Each one of us goes adapting his organization and method according to: the floral and climatic characteristics of the area where we work; to our immediate objectives and of long term; to the infrastructure that we possesses; and to our personal preferences.
The experience that we describe it is of Antonio Batista, in Carlos Tejedor's town in Bs.As. province, who work with an important number of beehives in production like others professional beekeepers of the "humid pampas".

In the extensive note, accompanied by several very illustrative pictures, we make reference to the main topics with the following subtitles:
- APIARIES DISPOSITION IN THE HUMID PAMPAS
- DAWNING IN THE COUNTRY
- THE CROP. TO "UNBEE" HIVES
- SOME OBSERVATIONS
. YIELD OF THE WORK
. THE BEE
. ORPHAN BEEHIVES
. 3/4 �AMERICAN� HIVES
. FLORAL REQUIREMENTS
. LOADS AND DISCHARGES
- CONCLUSION
Like to all system it is necessary to take practice. For beekeepers who works in areas with an important nectar caudal it is a very good option. Because, if you can return of the country one morning with 8.000 kg of honey, it is not a little thing! and costs decrease significantly.
Obviously it is necessary to have a lot of material, 4 or 5 "3/4 hives" per beehive. We thank to Batista's patience that they have had to us during our visit.
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San Luis (Argentina) Toward Quality Certification

Sandra Veliz Ceccotti, Quality Control Technician, and Roxana Carina Glerean, Biochemist, they have been recently incorporate to the grateful Professional staff of the Regional Center of Advanced, Scientific and Technological Studies in a very ambitious beekeeping project exclusively.
By initiative of "Productive Plans and Labor Promotion Direction" of San Luis' Province, the CFI signed an agreement with the CREACYT with wide Objectives.
Julián A. Muñoz, Doctor and current Director, advanced to "Espacio Apícola" that the objective of the hired technicians responds to two very defined work lines.
At first place to lend a control and quality certification service to beekeepers' honey. To the beekeepers of the program implemented by these Direction, like to all the interested ones who participate or not of these program.
And, on the other hand, to make a protocol for honey analysis in order to certificate the service under ISO 9003 norms in order to increase the possibilities of other investigation centers and laboratories of the Country. The note describes the included topics detailedly in the following subtitles: - A VISIT TO THE CREACYT
- THE HONEY ACIDITY
- NITROGEN DETERMINATION
- SUGARS DETERMINATION
- ASHY DETERMINATION
- GAS CROMATOGRAPHS WITH MASS SPECTROMETER ANALYSIS
Being the Cromatograph technique quite complex, we will explain it into separated note.
We thanks Sandra and Roxana the attention excused to us to carry out this note and in turn to Rosa Isabel Antón, Doctor and Projects Director of the Center, to also allow us to photograph and to travel with total freedom into the Center.
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Residuals Determination by Gas Cromatography

In ESPACIO APICOLA'S N� 34 we present this modern analytic technology that will invade the beekeeping world in a very little time.
With the understanding intention of the topic we interview Dr. Mauricio J. Pestchanker who is in charge of cromatographs handling of the "Regional Center of Advanced, Scientific and Technological Studies" of San Luis.
Mauricio has a vast experience in the topic and the one is considered a prominence in the matter among his colleagues of the Center.
Dr. Pestchanker explained to us detailedly the gas cromatographs with mass spectrometers operation and of the liquid cromatographs.

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Honey Extraction Rooms in Argentina

Mr. Lucas Dakoff. He is accustomed to a hard fight for survival. When the current limits of the honey commercialization loomed up, he decided to set up an extraction room according to the SENASA's norm number 220.
The note describes how to set up a extraction room according to demands of the normative one and the tremendous economic effort that Argentinean beekeepers are making to maintain the preference of international markets.

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