Producer Alberto Garcia Carbajo  said "I did not know what to do with the farm, someone suggested beekeeping and fascinated me,", who, after a decade and a half in the activity, has about  400 hives and support his son, is about to take another step in entering the commercial circuit live material on a larger scale, regardless of continuing with the production of honey.

Over the past four years the country has exported to the United States and Puerto Rico over a million kilograms of honey. These advances in beekeeping are mainly due to the initiative of the beekeepers who are waking up, taking a bee genetic material of excellent quality. Although government officials of the agricultural sector has not been given the proper dimension to the beekeepoing national sector .

The inauguration of the new facilities will take place next week, from May 21 to 25 , benefiting beekeepers from different regions of the state. The honey houses and warehouses were built from a partnership between the Seagro - Secretariat of Agriculture and Livestock, the Bank of Brazil Foundation and Fetoapi - Tocantinense Federation of Beekeepers.

Using honey and wax produced from the five hives she owns with her husband, Chen’s Alameda-based company Bubble Farm Soap Co. makes scented soaps such as chocolate and oatmeal honey.

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In the month were imported 12,534 tons (+7.1%) for a total dollar value of 40.4 million (+19.6%) at an average price in dollars per ton of 3,225 (+11.7%). In the full year were imported  30,187 tons (+4.1%) with a dollar value of 98.2 million (+14%) at an average price in dollars per ton of 3,253 (+9.5%). All percentage values ​​refer to the same period last year.

Paul Vautour, director of the Maritime Beekeepers Association and Maritime representative on the Canadian Honey Council, said things had been looking up but said beekeepers are facing serious losses once again.  He said a declining local bee population means paying to have other hives, or colonies, brought in. Bees are essential crop pollinators, and resorting to importation can be expensive.

Many families of small honey producers are displaced within the territory of Argentina by "green tide" of soy that is expanding more and sweeps with flowers, trees and plants, leaving no food for bees. This is the case of Angel Dovico beekeeper, who had to move their hives through 130 kilometers from the town of Lujan, in the rich central region known as Pampas, to Ibicuy in Parana River Delta (east).

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Nucleated in  beekeeping cooperatives and departmental councils of San Carlos, Tunuyán and Tupungato, small producers have more than 10,000 hives and an average output of 20 kilos each, totaling 200,000 kilos of pure honey per year.