Bees for Development Journal 129 December 2018
ARGENTINA New honey traceability system From 1 December 2018 every batch of honey that is harvested to be marketed in or from Argentina, must be registered in the Beekeeping Traceability System implemented by Senasa.
Photo © Chia Bernard Ful
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The measure is in compliance with resolution E5-2018 and is part of a systematisation that has been going on for several years. Each beekeeper needs a “tax code” to access their registration as a producer from the platform offered by the Federal Administration of Taxes (AFIP). All extraction rooms authorised or temporarily authorised by Senasa must register online every batch of extracted honey. This honey is packed in drums with a unique and inviolable label and will be tracked in the system through an 11 digit code on the label. Therefore, the label registers in the Senasa system all the steps followed by the honey, from the apiary where it was harvested, to which commercial operators intervened, until its export or final destination.
The picture above shows training for beekeepers in Njinikom with a volunteer adviser from SES Bonn Germany. He was invited by Boyo Association for Rural Development (BARUDEV), a local NGO that protects and conserves biodiversity through beekeeping, therefore ensuring climate justice for the care of creation and fighting against climate change. Volunteers can
KENYA Thank you so much for this great work. Ever since I started receiving BfD Journal, I have shared it with many others.
Photos © Tom Ochuka
More information at alimentosargentinos.gob.ar/ HomeAlimentos/Apicultura/ trazabilidad.php
I started keeping bees but in 2016 people (out of jealousy) destroyed our farm house and we lost everything: the bees, hives and land. A kind neighbour gave us a place to reside. Early this year some bees came looking for water in our living room. I kept on giving them water (we are on a hot humid rocky mountain side), eventually “they sent us away from the room”. 11
share their experience with us. We also network with universities and other NGOs. We carry out also sustainable agriculture using organic farming and seed multiplication and distribution to ensure food sovereignty Please contact us via Bees for Development Chia Bernard Ful, Director, BARUDEV, Boyo District
