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Beekeeping is one of the socio-economic activities, which are friendly to the environment and forests in general. During a recent Training of Trainers (ToT) session on REDD and Climate Change in Dodoma, beekeeping was mentioned as one of the key incentives for forest conservation. The training which was conducted by the Forest and Beekeeping Division attracted about 50 foresters from some of the selected regions and districts in the country.

A mild winter and unseasonably warm early spring have created conditions reminiscent of 2010, when beekeepers were caught off guard from an explosion of mite populations that killed off many honeybee colonies, according to a state expert. "The bees are coming out, but so are the parasitic mites," said Tony Jadczak, state apiarist and bee inspector. "What I've seen in my inspections is elevated mite loads because of the good health of the honeybees.

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The flufenoxurom, an active principle that the laboratory BASF sold under the trademark Cascade, is a treatment moratorium may not be sold from the summer and the European Commission has ordered such removal no later than December 31, 2012 for his "high potential for bioaccumulation in the food chain "and prove that your application has" a high risk to aquatic organisms. "

As each spring for years, reignite conflicts of interest between beekeepers place their hives, without permission, near citrus farms and producers of mandarin orchards next who fear the problem of 'pinyolà', leaving seeds in its fruits, which is a serious deterioration in its commercial value.

The Portugal National Federation of Beekeepers (FNAP) requires  the Government to subsidize food for the bees. The president of FNAP, Manuel Gonçalves, hopes that the situation "is addressed, since beekeepers do not agree" with the measures of the minister. Beekeepers Portuguese sent "a protest to the Ministry, recalling that also participate in solving the problems of the country and want some support in this direction."

Twenty-nine families of small farmers are benefiting from honey production through Project Good Hope, technology transfer, in the municipalities of Guadalupe and Uruçuí, Piauí, and St. Joâo dos Patos in Maranhao. The project is funded by the Hydroelectric Company of San Francisco - Chesf and executed by Embrapa Mid-North.

The stock of honey is perfect for a cataclysmic scenario that may occur by the end of the year. Well, I will not validate or dismissing the prediction of the Maya in the matter. For now, I will focus on sweet food and its benefits. As I was saying, honey lasts forever if you keep it right. No need to worry about the validity of livelihood. Recently, edible honey was found in a pharaoh's tomb in Egypt. I do not know if I would eat a food that was next to a corpse for thousands of years, but the children still had found its characteristic sweet and healthy.

The death of thousands of bees beekeepers worried the city of Gavião Peixoto, Sao Paulo. Whole hives were decimated. The bees will be reviewed by the State University of São Paulo, Jaboticabal, to know what caused the deaths. The deads occurred in hives that are in regions close to the city.