BEEKEEPING AND DEVELOPMENT
ASIAN APICULTURAL ASSOCIATION The first general assembly of the Asian Apicultural Association will be held during the International Conference on The Asian Honey Bees and Bee Mites. AAA is one of the sponsors of this Conference, which will be held at Chulalongkorn University in Thailand, 10-14 February 1992. The Conference will consist of 14 symposia whose titles are: I. 2.
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Biodiversity of honey bees in Asia Biodiversity of bee mites Bees monitor environment and as survey
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Impact of Asian bees on environment {tropical forestry) 5. Varroatosis and other acarine diseases
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Need for bees in crop production Economics of bees in pollination of agriculture, horticulture and highland crops Honey bees in conservation and wildlife
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New technologies and mite resistance
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technologies and genetic manipulation of Asian bees 11. New crops and hybrids, the plant and the beekeeper 12. in means of crc Advances biology protection and impact on bees 10. New
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For further details contact:
Dr Siriwat Wongsiri, Bee Biology Res Unit, Department of Biology, Chulal« University, Bangkok 10330, Thailand. Fax: 662 215 7436.
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APIEXPO 92 During the Conference an exhibition products, equipment and publications will be held in the Exhibition Centre, Chulalongkorn University. For further details contact:
C Lekprayoon, BBRU, Department of Biology, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok 10330, Thailand. Fax: 662 215 7436.
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AUSTRALIA
THE GAMBIA
Honey and Tree Seed Farming Conference.
First West African Beekeeping Research Seminar.
21-22 November 1991, Melbourne. Two-day Conference on the linked farm enterprises of sedentary honey farming and tree seed farming. Further details from: ITC] Secretariat, PO Box 283, Caulfield South, Victoria 3162, Australia.
23-28 November 1991, Friendship Hostel, Bakau Further details from: AFET, Brikama Town, Kombo Central District, Western Division, The Gambia.
CARIBBEAN Proposed Beekeepers’ Workshop, 1991. The purpose of the Workshop will be to bring together beekeepers operating in the Eastern Caribbean to discuss topics including production, commercialisation and Promotion of beekeeping in the region. Further details from: Jorge Murillo-Yepes, IBRA Regional Representative-Grenada, PO Box 612, Saint George's, Grenada.
CHINA XIX International Congress of Entomology. 28 June-4 July 1992, Beijing.
Further details from: Professor Z L Zhang, Secretary-General,
XIX International Congress of Entomology,
19 Zhongguancun Lu, Beijing 100080, China. Telex: 222337 ICCST CN; Fax: (861) 2565689.
THAILAND International Symposium on The Asian honeybees and bee mites and APIEXPO 92. 10-14 February 1992, Chulatongkorn University. Further details from: Dr Siriwat Wongsiri, Bee Biology Research
Unit, Department of Biology, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok 10330, Thailand.
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO Fifth International Conference on Apiculture in Tropical
Climates. 7-12 September 1992, University of the West Indies. Further details from: International Bee Research Association, 18 North Road, Cardiff CFl 3DY, UK.
USA International Workshop on Non-Apis Bees and their Role as Crop Pollinators.
August 1992, Logan, Utah. The purpose of the Workshop will be to facilitate exchange of current information on all aspects of bee biology and to improve prospects for establishing non-Apis bees as crop pollinators. Further details from. Dr John, Vandenberg, USDA-ARS Bee Biology and Systematics Laboratory, Utah State University, Logan, Utah, 843222 5310, USA. D
USDA-NASDA National Honey Bee Certification Workshop 24-26 October 1991, St Louis. Shimanuki, Bee Research Laboratory, BARC-E, B476, Beltsville, MD 20705, USA. Tel: 301 344 2205.
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Fax: 30] 344 1736.
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