BEES FOR DEVELOPMENT
Bees/v; Development Journal 88
ISSUE NO 88, SEPTEMBER 2008
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The Ninth Latin-American and Iberian Apicultural Congress The Chilean beekeeping community together organised this very large Congress in early July. This Series of Congresses has become the main event in the apicultural calendar for the Spanish and Portuguese-
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Cover: Bosco Okello of the Uganda Export Promotion Board. shows honey to visitors at the trade show during the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Kampala, 2007. Read more about BfD’s Comic Relief funded Project Strengthening trade in honey in Uganda on pages 8 and 9. IN
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The Congress took place in Concepcién, Chile’s second city, and represented a great step forward for beekeeping in Chile. For it was only comparatively recently, during the 1990s, that a national beekeeping association was formed in the country. With a united voice, beekeepers have achieved much with good official recognition and support for the sector. For example, Chile's Minister of Agriculture took time out to open the Congress, as pictured below.
Chile’s 4,000 beekeepers, looking after 400,000 colonies of honey bee_ derived from European races of Apis mellifera, harvest an annual 9,000 tonnes of honey. Approximately 80% of this is exported, the majority to Germany. There is much scope for Chilean beekeepers to increase their income from their bees. Those barrels of honey for export contain a mixture of marvellous honeys, that could achieve a better price if marketed as mono-floral and speciality honey.
The next in this series of Congresses will take place in Brazil in 2010.
Nicola Bradbear
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Chile Minister for Agriculture. Ms Marigen Hornkohi. cuts the ribbon to open the Congress. From left. local government Minister Ms Maria Angélica Fuentes, Senator Mr Hossaim Sabag, Beekeeper Mr Julio Beltran, Ms Hornkohi, and a Representative from the Spanish Government, Ms José Sanchez Eco. With thanks to Chile Apicola for enabling Nicola Bradbear’s participation in the Congress.
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