"MIELES PAMPEANAS" PROTOCOL
The first Argentine Protocol to Certify Honey Producing Process by IRAM norms

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EDITORIAL

INUNDACION BS.AS.-CBA. The day that we came from Bahía Blanca bringing to tow our uneven Pick-up Peugeot, was already cut the national roadway nº 7. Few days later in the place where we take this picture, the water crossed the roadway comfortably. Once again it repeats the sad image of flood with more than 1.500.000 of hectares flooded among the south of Córdoba, Santa Fe and north of Buenos Aires province. So much harvest are lost, ruined fields and we can not arrive at so much beehives...
This reality makes worse the financial crisis that comes dragging the agricultural sector and the abrupt fall of cereals, milk and honey prices...
The adhesion that the beekeepers group of Río Cuarto-Achiras makes to the Agricultural National Strike it is a worthy decision to imitate for all those that we also seek to be recognized as rural producers...
Obviously that it is not easy to coordinate all sectors interests involved in the agricultural chore, but if we begin to recognize that the agricultural production in its group completes a fundamental list in the economy of our country; that we have been absorbed brutally by financial sector interests and that we assume models for our own economic administration that this defer to the primary productive sector, fundamental motor of our internal economy. It is possible that we begin to think of a country model based on that we have and that we are.
From our humble press work, we attempt in Espacio Apícola's numbers to recover our roots, to value our work people and to diffuse the best thing of ourselves to safeguard and to recover, day by day, our self-esteem, our "api"-"culture", in front of a system that uses us and it also minimizes us.
We know that our effort is not vain that it serves you and you like it. We are waiting for you in Río Cuarto Beekeeping-Expo, where we take place to this beautiful friendship that unites us.

The Director
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"paaj" Pollen Harvesting (Quebracho Colorado)

RAUL ARNOLETTO
Raúl M. Arnoletto, one of more grateful Quebracho pollen producer, as revering to the centennial mounts, he introduces us in the handmade crop of one of the purest, valuable and paradoxically not very well-known foods... the Pollen of "Quebracho Colorado" or "paaj" like is still called in Quechua Santiagueño, the original language of the province.
FLOR DEL
With an exquisite flavor that contrasts notably with one extracted of other floral varieties, the Quebracho Colorado pollen, Schinopsis quebracho-colorado (Schlecht.) Barkley et Meyer, it is harvested and cleaned in Santiago del Estero province by beekeepers and their families.

Fernando Manzano, another beekeeper of Santiago del Estero with those ESPACIO APICOLA could go into quebracho's forest to crop pollen.
The note, of twelve pages is ilustrated with more than 20 pictures taken during the crop and prosecution on February of 1999. It narrates different topics with the following subtitles:
-POLLEN PRODUCTION
- BEES
- MATERIALS
- THE POLLEN TRAP
- TRAPS AND CROP
- DRYING AND CLEANING
- YIELDS AND MARKET.
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Pollen Show the Differs
Dra. MONICA CRISTINA WINGENROTH

Current tendencies of consumer's market require the origin products identification, particularly nutritious, and specifically those that show distinguished properties by their nutritious value, for their condition of natural foods in pure state and stiller when these come from geographical areas of the planet without polution and elaborated based on technical of certified procedures.
ILUSTRACION DE MARCELA MARINO
In this way all national researchs one comes making to bring up to date of different pollen maps and correlative pollen database there are more important. It should be accompanied by a classification to guide consumer's preferences and producer. In this way, 22 years of investigation that Dr. Mónica Cristina Wingenroth where developing with a group of self-denying without payment collaborators, that we presented they in ESPACIO APICOLA'S nº 35, these are essential base for our beekeeping porjection.
Dr. Wingenroth in an extensive note, with many illustrations, responds to these and other questions: - Why is it possible to identify honeys, pollen or propolis floral origin? - How pollen does incorporate into honeys? - How floral origin is identified into nectar or honeys? - Why is it spoken of high nutritious honeys value or therapeutic honeys? - Do exist identified honeys for consumption and therapeutic honeys? - Then, do exist qualitative differences in beekeeping products of autochthonous floras and exotic floras? - What can you tell us about works that you will present with your collaborators in Río Cuarto's Beekeeping Expo?.
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"Mieles Pampeanas" Protocol
SELLO DE CONFORMIDAD NORMAS IRAM
It was approved by INTA, National Institute of Agricultural Technology, the Protocol for honeys production system made by “Mieles Pampeanas”, Cooperation Manager's Association (A.C.E.), of Southwest of Buenos Aires province.
IRAM (Rationalization Materials Institute) It's the organism certifier of the execution of the same one protocol. IRAM have a grateful international trajectory for its participation in ISO'S Norms Committee.
LUIS Y JUAN CARLOS SCHNEIDER, ALBERTO MARX Y JORGE BERTUCCIO
Recently IRAM authorities traveled to "Teniente Origone's town" to extract the last honey samples of the first 100 drums that will be certified by the mentioned institute to complete that settled down in this protocol.
Just as our editorial suggested it in Espacio Apícola Nº 29 (august 1997) the answer toward growing quality demands of external markets (E.A. nº28 - June of 1997 and following) it would find satisfaction if producers assumed and they took the leading in development and implementation of a "certified production systems", a "Quality System".
The extensive note narrates the different topics according to the following subtitles:
- PROJECT DEVELOPMENT
- AN ARDUOUS ROAD
- WHAT IS THE PROTOCOL
- HOW THE SYSTEM IS IMPLEMENTED
- WHICH ARE CONTROVERSIAL ASPECTS FOR BEEKEEPERS
Being these other ones to be responded in the Beekeeping-Expo Río Cuarto and in our next edition of Espacio Apícola:
- WHAT IMPORTANCE DOES IT HAVE TO WORK UNDER A PROTOCOL?
- HOW MUCH COSTS IMPLY TO ASSUME A QUALITY SYSTEM?
- ARE BETTER PERSPECTIVES OF COMMERCIALIZATION GLIMPSED IF WE WORK WITH A QUALITY SYSTEM?
- DOES EACH COMPANY HAVE TO HAVE ITS OWN PROTOCOL OR WE CAN ADHERE TO THIS ONE?

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German Apitherapy Society
STEFAN STANGACIU

The Rumanian Dr. Stefan Stângaciu*, he was recently elected president of the German Apitherapy Society. Stefan was shared with us last days of the Beekeeping-Expo of San Francisco’98. (cfr. Espacio Apícola:
nº 31,
nº 33
and nº 34) In an exclusive report for Espacio Apícola Stefan comments us the growing importance that has in Germany the practice of alternative medicine and which are ideas that we can think about to constitute in our country a similar association to which he presides over.
DEUTSCHER APITERPARIEBUND
* Dr. Stefan Stângaciu, M.D., L.Ac.
E-mail: apither@gmb.ro
- President of the German Apitherapy Society
- Member and Webmaster of the American Apitherapy Society
- Medical coordinator of Apimondia Apitherapy database
- Director of "DAO" Co. Constanta, Rumania.

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Markets: Colateral aspects of Honey Price in Argentina

The fall of honey price has generated a series of interesting movements among beekeepers. In different points of the country such actions have begun as debate meetings, proposals of increasing the internal market, presumed culprits' of the situation search, bills and proposed to modify the current joint.
We found important then, from our editorial, to offer other analysis elements that although they are not directly related to the beekeeping sector, they are part of a global reality of Argentina in the concert of markets and international interests where we try to improve our noble products position.
It accompanies this note a graph that illustrates the fall of the honey price paid to producers in last two years.
There are also included in the following pages a brief note, extracted of a general interest magazine, referred at the manpower cost in different countries of the world. The same one give an orientation to understand the frantic fight of German and United States producers to conserve their internal market price levels, as we point out it appropriately in the report to Mr. Ullmann into Espacio Apícola nº 31. - Next we transcribe a report that recently Juan Carlos Rava* sent us and that we understand it will help us to consider: the positioning of Argentina in front of other markets and consequences that for some and others have had the different crises of the international financial system.
ARGENTINEAN STOCK MARKET EVOLUTION COMPARED WITH BRAZILIAN AND UNITED STATES TOGETHER TO INCLINATION OF THEIR MERVAL, BOVESPA AND DOW JONES INDEX IN DOLLARS FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE ASIAN CRISIS.
Rava Exchange Society elaborated based on own data, a demonstrative square of three more important indexes considered by us that it is Merval index of Buenos Aires (Argentina), Bovespa index of San Pablo (Brazil), and the most important index in the world, the Dow Jones of United States.
*Lic. Juan Carlos Rava Rava Exchange Society CORP.
e-mail: ebolsa@rava.com.ar home page: http://www.ebolsa.com.ar
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