6. News from around the
world
Pakistan A three~year
pilot project in apiculture
has been launched by the Sind
The aim of the project is to encourage beekeeping in Forest Department. rural areas and maximize the production of good quality honey, so that farmers’ The proincomes are increased and the need for imported honey is reduced. ject will encourage the cultivation of nectar bearing crops such as mango and mustard, and develop beekeeping management. (Source: Business Recorder, Karachi, November 1983.)
Fuerto Rico
Festival is to take place in Lares, Puerto Rico, during More details from Associacion de Apicultores de March 30 — April 1 1984, Puerto Rico Inc., Apartado Postal 471, Lares, Puerto Rico 00669 The Beekeeper's
Trinidad Africanized bees first arrived in Trinidad in 1979 and they are now abundant in the country. The Trinidad Ministry of Agriculture hes arranged a programme to try and reduce the aggressiveness of the bees by introducing docile European queen bees into the swarms of Africanized bees. Even before Africanized bees arrived, the Ministry of Agriculture had begun preparatory work to deal with any problems which might arise, and a "yublic awareness" programme was started, giving seminars on the characteristics of the bees and showing a film "Killer Bee - Fact or Fantasy?" Posters and booklets have also been distributed by the Ministry. (Source: Trinidad Guardian, 7 February 1984 ) New
Director
Here at TERA we started the New Year with a new
Director.
After
35
years as Director of IBRA, Dr. Eva Crane has retired. Dr. Crane has helped to make apiculture recognized as
During these years an important part of modern science and she has travelled widely, studying different methods of beekeeping throughout the worid; many of you must know her personally and yet more are acquainted with her many publications. Although retired as Director,
Dr. Crane is still Consultant to
connected with IBRA in the Honorary office of Scientific
Like Dr. Crane the new Director, Dr. Margaret Adey, has a special interest in apiculture in the tropics and subtroxics, and before taking up her new post Dr. Adey will be here, she spent a month beekeeping in tropical Africa. writing about her visit in a future edition of the Newsletter.
