In Issue 77

Dear friends

We hope that 8fD Journal encourages you in your beekeeping endeavours wherever you live edition is in press, beekeeping meetings are underway around the world: While this in Bangalore, India the International Beekeeping Congress; in Trinidad the Fourth Caribbean Beekeeping Congress, and in December in El Salvador, the Central American Seminar and Workshop on Stingless Bees.

Useful meetings do not need hundreds of participants and an international audience. On page 6 Nelson Abila tells us of Busho Serenity Foundation's one-day workshop to explain the techniques of beekeeping to enhance sustainable livelihoods to a small, local audience. The positive outcomes were important recommendations and more people aware of the benefits of beekeeping.

Also in this issue Dr G N Paliwal and his associates at the Centre for Bee Development in Wardha, India, inform us about a new system they have developed that enables them to harvest from Apis dorsata without harming the colony (page 3). On page 11, Pam Gregory responds to a recent request for more information about feeding pollen to bees.

We visit The Crossroads of the Americas - Panama - for a country report by Dr Dewey Caron on page 9 and hear about sweet profits from Guatemala on page 10. Beekeepers in Panama have been working with Africanised honeybees since 1982 and in Guatemala since 1986. The management of these honey bee swill surely be discussed during the Caribbean Congress mentioned above. We plan to bring you reports in the next issue of BAD Journal.

Nicola Bradbear, Director Bees for Development

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