ARGENTINE BEEKEEPING
SUNFLOWER AS MELLIFEROUS PLANT

Original in Spanish

Sunflower as melliferous plant is the main title of this Espacio Apícola edition and it is focused to promote a profesional pollination service to increase sunflower seed quality and quantity. This could grow up the oil production and constitute an abundant nectar source to bees. The topic is closely connected with the other works and articles published in this edition.

Hard Edition published in November of 2008

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Main titles of the 84th edition of ESPACIO APICOLA,
August - October 2008.

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EDITOR WORDS:
CROP IS OUR TARGET
Fernando L Esteban (Córdoba, November 5th, 2008) We would need a whole magazine to project the possible analysis of the advantage or against of the current beekeeping situation in the national and international context but, beyond any hypothesis of possible scenarios... "a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush."
That is to say, we should focus on achieving the biggest production we can reach in this season, because most of our companies are family ones and the time that we don't invest on our bees, what will we invest on?.
It is seen that neither the mortgages that sustained the US financial market nor the bond funds that constitute the guarantee funds of some of our trusteeships are strong or more reliable than our fragile beehives. For that reason, as we have suggested in our editorials, in these times of crisis, the one that could keep the beehives should do it, we should trust in our profession and follow the way that mark us the bees.
From this point of view, this current edition of Espacio Apícola is plenty of proposals, alternatives and motivations, besides having useful tools for a better performance of our activity, we'll also find resources to argue the beekeeping defense in multisectorial meetings that, at crisis times, it is indispensable that they begin to be constituted.
Agrochemical price rising, drop in grains prices, the not so indispensable production of bio-diesel, the need for the Government of generate genuine resources because it is seems we will no longer be able to live by export taxes, it will end in the most optimistic and less painful point of view, in the regional economies development. Mayda Verde experience contribution from Cuba, a country that doesn't receive any financing since USSR fall and the Griselda Jullier convocation to recover and to valorize our original culture, shows the attitude that we should have to defend the Beekeeping Space in harmony with the whole agricutural productions. Have a happy and abundant crop!.
Fernando L. Esteban - Director
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FEEDING AND PREVENTION OF NOSEMA DISEASE? - Hidrolyzed Sugar Syrup production with Tartaric Acid to feed Bees
Pablo J. Toledo
ISDFS - Córdoba - Argentina

This work clears important doubts that have been for more than thirty years, about how to prepare the traditional sugar syrup proposed at the beginning of last century, published in "The ABC and XYZ of the Bee Culture" by Root Co.
How much percentage of hidrolyzed sugars and how much HMF takes place in the process? they find interesting answers here to discard fears and to take advantage of different alternatives.
For example, why was tartaric acid used instead of citric? This and other questions find attractive answers according to the tartaric acid properties and its possible inhibitory activity against Nosema disease.

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SEVERAL VETERINARY PROPOSALS FOR THE COLONY COLLAPSE DISORDER (CCD)
Mayda Verde maydaverde@yahoo.es
La Habana - Cuba
Mayda Verde - Cuba
Mayda Verde, PhD published an article about the challenges that should face the state veterinary services in Espacio Apícola 75th in December 2006. One of the subtitles of that article was "Sanity as Environmental Problematic, not of the Bee."
Soon after, we were trying to give the first explanations on it was called CCD firstly in United States and very quickly in Europe on February 2007.
From her experience working on the beekeeping area of the Cuban Ministry of Agriculture, Mayda offers us an integrative perspective approaching the reality that in fact it is only one, from the environmental and global perspective and giving us a score of cares from the specificity of the beekeeping production and from her concept of the role of the State.

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ORGANIC CULTURE: Another Strategic Alliance for Beekeepers
Griselda Jullier
Santa Fe - Argentina


Beside the fall of the honey price for the nitrofurane crisis among 2003-2004; the soya boom and the excluding extreme implementation of direct seeding system displaced the beekeeping, once again, toward climatically critical, productively risky and socioeconomically marginal areas.
Like that begins a detailed analysis of the current Argentine Beekeeping situation, in charge of our editorial staff, making the presentation of Griselda Jullier article where the heading that she develops are the following:
The Organic production in Soya age
Santa Fe and the organic production development
Strategies for sustainable productive activities development
Understanding Stage and
Proposal

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SUNFLOWER AS MELLIFEROUS PLANT
Ofelia Ana Naab and M. Angélica Tamame
angetamame@agro.unlpam.edu.ar
UNLPam y CONICET
Santa Rosa - La Pampa - Argentina
Polen - Helianthus annus - girasol - sunflower

Since the earlier editions of Espacio Apícola, we have referred to the optimization of the Sunflower production when its cultivation is pollinated by bees.
The rise of production for bigger percentage of achieved flowers and the bigger fatty tenor in its seed was always outstanding.
However, to the fact that the honey production in this monocultivation always had the risk, if the climatic conditions are not good, that bees don't find another important resource in their foraging area and the incidence of seed treatments and other insecticides uses, at the end of '90s was added the idea that self compatible sunflowers didn't need pollinator agents.
With more than fifteen years working in analysis of Pampas honeys, Ofelia Naab, PhD, teacher and investigator of Agronomy School of the Universidad Nacional de La Pampa, with her pupil Angélica Tamame, both specialists in the study, analysis and characterization of sunflower honeys, they give us in this article an important upgrade to beekeepers who look for adding value to their products and knowledge how to handling their beehives in this cultivation, also to farmers who want to optimize their production with more yield in volume and fatty tenor of seeds.
SUBHEADINGS:
Characterization of the Sunflower (Helianthus annus) as Melliferous Plant
Introduction
History
Production in Argentina
Which are sunflower characteristics and why is it considered as an important melliferous plant?
Bee importance like pollinator agent
Sunflower Honeys Characterization

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