CUBAN BEEKEEPING AND ARGENTINEAN BEEKEEPING PLAN

Original in Spanish

Each time that in Argentina a sector is drowned by the administrative and fiscal bureaucracy, the State makes a "plan" that becomes a gravestone for this sector. This happend with the regional meat cold-storage plants... the creameries... a great part of the regional milky industry... the meat production... Will be the "Beekeeping Plan" that is being announced a new gravestone?. In front of it, we present in this edition the integrative experience developed in Cuba and presented in the pages of our Espacio Apícola magazine by one of its main characters.

Published on December 2006

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EDITOR WORDS:
BEEKEEPING OR COUNTRY PLAN?
Fernando L EstebanCordoba: (December 2006) - 2006 was another year of important efforts by the argentinean beekeeping family. With a poor production due to the droughts and a price that slowly was improving while the problems of honeys from previous crops were solved, all the productive chain sectors had to face the situation of the country that is recomposing its prices, gain margins in the other productive and services items and a certain overheating of the economy.
An engine overheats when it is demanded over the limit of its capacities and the maintenance or the necessary replacements are not made. Then, the energy that is not plentiful and is not cheap, instead of becoming work it vanishes in heat, without taking advantage of it and damaging the engine.
When the solution is increasing the retentions (export taxes) to a productive sector, although it's not our, trying to subsidize other productive sectors, we are putting a patch and overheating the economy of the country dangerously.
Strategically in the XIX century we choose to grant the health and the public education. Searching of equal opportunities; it is necessary to subsidize well these sectors. We choose also strategically to invest in the investigation of the underground looking for the energy autoprovisioning, and YPF and YCF started, a hundred years ago, the oil, gas and carboniferous exploration that today is being exploited by transnational capital... Later, we nationalize the railroads... we also closed them and we begin to subsidize the transport.
Besides that the subsidies bastardize any activity, How much bureaucratic cost take to implement them? Just a example, how much money spends Córdoba city to grant a monthly family allowance of only 30 pesos (less than 10 U$S), in paper, stamps, vouchers, bureaucracy...?
That overheats the economy, it wastes, it devaluates our currency.
The absence of a country project scares. The exposure we make about the European Union in this edition is to pay attention, Patricio Crespo and Mayda Verde's experiences are concrete contributions to think of an integrative project. The flora from "Traslasierras" region... a relief, a smile, a hope. Good crop for all and let's take care of your money.
Fernando L. Esteban - Director
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QUEEN BEES EXPORTS TO THE EUROPEAN UNION
Giovanni Formato
gioformato@yahoo.es
- Instituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Regioni Lazzio y Toscana - Rome - Italy

Giovanni Formato

With the Giovanni Formato's article published in Espacio Apícola 70th edition, about the 21 points of the Good Beekeeping Practices in Italy, we insinuated the possibility of bilateral agreements to facilitate the beekeeping trade between Argentina and Italy.
In this new article that the young technical from the "Instituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Regioni Lazio y Toscana" sends us, based on the experience of queen bees exports to Italy made at the beginning of 2006 by people from "Los Manantiales Co.", important alternatives are seen for the Argentinean beekeeping, in the middle of an European legislation submerged in a paralyzed bureaucracy.
Argentina has the advantage of producing bees of Apis mellifera ligustica race with high purity, demanded by the most professional beekeepers in the world and having Italy, cradle of this race, as entrance door to the market of queen bees in the north hemisphere, is an important opportunity.
In the article, Giovanni presents the requirements of "QUEEN BEES IMPORTS TO THE EUROPEAN UNION", the "EFFECTIVE REGULATION DURING THE INSPECTION", the "REQUIREMENT OF CERTIFIED", "THE SANITARY INFORMATION to CERTIFY" presenting finally an encouraging panorama for the Argentinean breeder in his "CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS", with "Bibliography" and copies of the models of certificates and required documentation.

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ANTECEDENTS, EVOLUTION AND PERSPECTIVE OF THE BEEKEEPING IN THE "PAMPA HUMEDA"
- Patricio Crespo
patriciocrespo@yahoo.com
- Chivilcoy - Buenos Aires - Argentina



After some years rehearsing in a systematic way the complementation between the cattle and beekeeping activity, Patricio Crespo, offers us a wider vision that we believe it allows to go from the occasional reaction in front of the soya joint, toward a development and growth perspective.
The challenge is not small because, it responds to the necessities of hundred of families that, with a modest productive unit and generally complementary to another job, with between 100 and 250 beehives, they need to make more profitable that investment and effort.
In this article we will find important arguments that sustain the motto that we intended in San Francisco's Api-Expo: “For an Agricultural Integration”, very useful not only to start a dialogue with the owner of a field parcel, although as a contribution to an agricultural planning.
After the "INTRODUCTION" Patricio presents "THE SMALL-MEDIUM BEEKEEPER'S PROBLEM", "THE SOWING AS AN ALTERNATIVE", "THE CATTLE OUTLINE" and the "BEEKEEPING COUNTERPOINT" to finish with a detailed "ANALYSIS AND PERSPECTIVES."

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WORLD HONEY PRODUCTION AND THE EUROPEAN MARKET
- Fernando Luis Esteban
inform@apicultura.com.ar
- Córdoba - Argentina

Produccion Mundial de Miel
Espacio Apícola grafic.

Starting from data published by the Apimondia in its web site www.beekeeping.com under the title “Apiculture: Situation Mondiale et Europeenne” (July, 2006), based on data from USDA and FAO, sources that we consulted also in particular form, we put in order a part of the information in charts and graphics, making an interpretation of the same ones.
The most outstanding topics in the analysis are: "CHINA AND BRAZIL: TWO OPPOSED CASES", the "EUROPEAN MARKET" analyzing the economic effects for the beekeeping sector of the expansion of the "community" frontiers and making finally a modest projection under the title "THE CRYSTAL BALL".

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APTITUDES OF THE BEEKEEPING PRODUCTION IN SAN JAVIER DEPARTMENT (Córdoba - Argentina)
- Luisa Oliva and others
Faculty of Agricultural Sciences - UNC - Córdoba - Argentina

INTRODUCTION
"San Javier" is one of the Departments that is being studied, located in the west of Córdoba province among the 31º 55' and 32º 20' of South latitude and the 64º 55' and 65º 38' of West longitude. Constituted by the districts: "Talas", "Luyaba", "Las Rosas", "San Javier" and "Dolores", in the last one we find the department capital: Villa Dolores city.
There are two orographic accidents that characterize this Department: In the East the "Sierras Grandes" and "Sierra of Comechingones" (mountains both), that are the natural limits with the "Calamuchita" Departmen. In the West, the "Valley of Conlara river", is a part of the limit with "San Luis" province.
On the cost way, that is to say on the foot of the mountains, there are some populations that are establishments of small producers and tourist venturesome, what gives place to an own productive characteristic, of cultivations and processed of aromatic and medicinal species, as well as the existence of family industries, as the elaboration of olive oil, sweets, manufactured of beehive products, crafts and others.
Apart from this introduction, accompanied by pictures that illustrate the beauty of the studied region, there is relevant data that distinguish and identify the beekeeping products from the region, the "GEOGRAPHICAL AND CLIMATIC CHARACTERISTIC OF THE STUDIED AREAR", the "PHITOGEOGRAPHIC CHARACTERIZATION", the "HUMAN INCIDENCE", "FLORA'S LOOK FROM THE BEEKEEPING POINT OF VIEW", the "CHARACTERIZATION OF HONEYS FROM SAN JAVIER DEPARTMENT", the "FINAL CONSIDERATIONS" next to the "BIBLIOGRAPHY" and a brief "NOTE OF THE EDITOR"

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STATE VETERINARY SERVICES: THEIR CHALLENGES IN THE MODERN AND INTENSIVE BEEKEEPING
- Mayda Verde
maydaverde@yahoo.es
La Habana - Cuba

Mayda Verde
Mayda Verde teaching a colleague how to work against varroa.

Soon there will be 50 years of that trip in which Mr.Israel Werthein was impacted by the exuberant tropical vegetation of the Cuba island whose fragrances were accentuated at this time for the hope due to the victory of the revolution, and that finally inspired the title of the book in whick he put the letters to his grandson Alejandro: “CUBA, PARADISE OF BEES.”
Mrs. Mayda Verde, was at the time just a girl, that breastfeeded during the decadent Cuba of Batista, she woke up in the adolescence in the middle of peak of the purest socialist ideals of “Che”. We suggest to read this article from that perspective, as we pointed out in our editorial of Espacio Apícola 72nd, where the beekeeping is a part of an agricultural and country project; knowing that the same as in China, the property of the earth and the production means are different to the Westerners.
Mayda Verde, Veterinary Doctor, specialist in bee illnesses, up to the middle of 2006 as a worker of the Cuban Ministry of Agriculture, today she enjoys her retirement pension and she is member of the Cuban Beekeeping Association “CUBAPI”, ACPA.
In this work Mayda shows how Cuba in these last years didn't increase the number of beehives, but the productivity and the quality of the products improve. She also describes that the beekeeping is a part of a plan that involves the other agricultural producions, the susteinable characterists of all of them, and the nutritional aspects.
Her wide presentations has the following subtitles:
- INTRODUCTION
- INTERACTION OF THE BEEKEEPING WITH THE REST OF THE HUMAN ACTIVITY
- THE SANITARY PROBLEM
- SANITY LIKE AN ENVIROMENTAL PROBLEM NOT OF THE BEE
- SUGGESTION TO ACT
- BIBLIOGRAPHY CONSULTED

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