Last Thursday September 30, Friday 1º and Saturday October 2, "ESPACIO APICOLA" arrived to Gaiman, old Welsh colony in the Chubut River valley, to participate of the «1st. Beekeepin Meetingin of Chubut» organized by the Beekeepers Society of the Valley, relating Producers in the region and the Beekeeping Cooperative, with the Provincial Government's support, CORFO (Development Corporation) of Chubut, the local Agency of the INTA and the Chubut Foundation.

- (picture) Gliwa's family, beekeepers of the Chubut River Valley, in a sample carried out in Trelew. -
It was some quality induction days basically toward the «Origin Denomination» of Chubut Beekeeping products; in the one anything worthless mark of the international prestige reached with the denomination of «Patagonia products».
With their own characteristics, this is one more than the so many efforts that are marking a clear tendency in the whole country. The note includes several reports to many of its main characters. The objectives of beekeepers and linked organisms, the characteristics and superlative properties of the area and their beekeeping products are described this way.
"To this we point essentially: to have a product of high quality tied to an patagonic origin and that allows to identify the origin determination that is the topic with which finishes the shop". -words of one of organizers -.
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Origin Denomination - Quality Systems Induction


The conferences that crowned the beekeeping meeting in Gaiman, Chubut province, the last October 2, were those referred to reach the «Origin Denomination» of bee products of the Chubut River Valley and of other regions of that southern province.
Engineer Alicia Forcone referred to the «palinology honeys characterization in the valleys under watering of the Chubut» and then the Engineer Héctor Ordoñez, private consultant, come from Buenos Aires, he made a defiant call to work on the whole toward what was proposed as main axis of the meeting, the «Origin Denomination» of bee local products.
Ordoñez highlighted the necessity of a provincial and national legal framework, that allows to local producers to defend the added value of its products in front of the disloyal competition.
The article is the synthesis of its exhibition, explaining all the steps that should be taken and to arrive to the origin denomination.
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Apimondia 99 - Vancouver

In the imposing city of Vancouver, Canada, was developed the XXXVIº Apimondia Congress and Api-Expo ‘99. 2977 people, among lecturers, commercial exhibitors, participants, companions and journalists register in this last congress of the century. We visit the commercial sample too.
VANCOUVER AND THE CONVENTIONS CENTER
The Conventions Center where the congress was developed it is summoned in a pier, of modern architecture, in the middle of tourist, financial and commercial center of the Vancouver Downtown.
To their sides, in front of a great contoured bay of mountains and upholstered parks of coniferous, hydroplanes and helicopters that give movement and coloring to the landscape by way of garlands,...
In an extensive note of central pages, we describe a first impression of what was this congress, accompanied by more than 30 pictures that illustrate from the backstage of the congress until the machineries exposed in the api-expo.
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