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In Issue 99
ISSUE No 99 June 2011
In this issue
Practical beekeeping - how to make a bee evacuator..................................3
Access to finance for rural honey trade ..................................................5
Appropriate training for beekeepers ....7
Profitability of Apis mellifera in Vietnam .............................................8
Caribbean Update.............................10
News around the World ....................10
Apitrade Africa .................................10
Look & Learn Ahead/Notice Board ....12
Bookshelf.........................................14
Notice Board ....................................15
BfD Journal
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Editor Nicola Bradbear PhD Co-ordinator Helen Jackson BSc
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Our cover picture is by award-winning Slovenian beekeeper-photographer Franc Sívic. This shows in close-up a fully loaded pollen basket on the leg of a Carniolan bee Apis mellifera carnica. The pollen is from dandelion Taraxacum officinale.
COVER PHOTO © FRANC SIVIC
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