Apimondia 2015 Abstract book (South Korea)

BRO-030

Sizes of artificial hive and the performance of the stingless bee Heterotrigona itama in Agropolis Unisza apiary.

Abd Jamil Zakaria, Muhammad Muslim Mohd Rodi

University Sultan Zainal Abidin, Malaysia

A study was conducted in the Agropolis UniSZA Apiary Malaysia located near the coastline where the soil texture consists of 90% sand. In the first study, 16 natural stinglessbee hives found in tree trunk were cut open to investigate the hive morphology and the colonies were transferred into artificial hives of volumes of 2925, 4050, 6300 and 10350 cm3. The quantities of honey produced from the different sizes of artificial hives were determined. Four replicates of artificial hive were prepared and arranged in CRD under the natural shaded areas in the apiary. In the second study we investigated the influence of time of day and weathe r conditions on the foraging performances of H. itama. The results indicated that in the tree trunk the hive was found to be oval in shape with the central width dimension of 9.6 cm and 17.0 cm long. However the trunk cavities have the width of 10.8 cm wide and 45.1 cm long. The artificial hives of volume 6300 cm3 (15x15x28 cm) produced the highest amount of honey. The number of foragers for both honey and pollen were peak at 7-10 am and declined sharply after that. The proportions of pollen foragers accounted to about one-fifth of honey foragers. The foraging activity was the highest during sunny morning and greatly reduced during cloudy and rainy periods. Results from these studies provided basic understanding of the potential of rearing the H. itama in the infertile BRIS soil along the beach in Malaysia.

BRO-016

Perceptions and adaptations of beekeepers and honey hunters to climate change in the Communes Djidja, Dassa and Tchaourou located south, center and northern part of Benin

Armand Paraiso4, Gregoire Paraiso1, Roméo Ayeleroun2, Franck Akogbeto3, Bienvenu

Adjoha4

1 Bee Pathology, Parasitlogy Laboratory and Plant Protection, Benin

2 Bee pathology, Parasitology Laboratory and Plant Protection, Benin

3 University of Parakou, Benin

4 University of Parakou, Bee Pathology and Parasitology Laboratory, Benin

Climate change and his effects, today constituted a major threat to the environment and sustainable development. Perceptions and adaptation strategies developed by beekeepers and honey hunters to climate change are not enough explored. The objective of this study aimed at analyzing their perceptions on climate change with a focus on their strategies of adaptations. A survey was conducted among three hundred and sixty (360) beekeepers and honey hunters within three Communes, located in the south and Northern part of Benin. Data on demographic characteristics, perceptions and strategies for adaptation to climate change were collected throughout semistructured interviews and focus groups consultations. Triangulation of information was achieved to check collected information. Our results showed that various coping strategies such as: reduction or increase of the

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number of hives, farming with other bees’ species, changing beekeeping techniques, amendment of periods of beekeeping operations, displacement of apiary, prayer or other activities allowing beekeepers to adapt to climate change were adopted by both beekee pers and honey hunters of the three study sites.. The most affected beekeepers by the effects of climate change, as in previous studies in others localities abandon beekeeping for honey hunting, which represented a serious threat to bee’ biodiversity, Our studies raise the urgent need of strategies for conservation of bee’ diversity.

Symposium: Apiecotourism and Urban Beekeeping

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Ecological aternative: Effects of rooftop garden on foraging of honey bee in urban landscape

Yoori Cho, Minjoo Lee, Jongho Kim, Sungsoo Yoon, Dowon Lee

Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Seoul National University, Republic of Korea

Ecological processes and their interactions rely on much larger scales than a single habitat, so that it is necessary to relate spatial patterns to ecological processes at a landscape scale. Urban landscapes support considerable biodiversity and provide ecosystem services, and so are of conservation value, even though they are highly modified ecosystems. What is more interesting, urban landscape is, in general, composed of a variety of land cover types forming a dynamic landscape context. Urban parks and gardens are rich in floral resources that provide pollen which is the food source for pollinators, including bees. In this study, we analyze effects of rooftop garden at Seoul National University where on-campus beekeeping is being practiced on foraging of honey bee (Apis mellifera) in an urban landscape. The study site is situated in a unique landscape context, a mixture of highly populated area and mountainous area. We use a newly modified powder dispenser to mark honeybees in order to see their foraging paths, with respect to the following hypothesis: a rooftop garden is an alternative foraging site for honey bees. It is known that honey bees do not normally forage in less than 0.5 km, but this study examines whether the rooftop garden can function as a foraging site when floral resources are not enough in surrounding landscapes.

BRO-071

The canberra urban honey project: Lessons for the role of apiculture in sustainable urban food systems.

Mitchell Pearce1, Carmen Pearce-Brown2

1 Canberra Urban Honey, Australia

2 Australian National University, Australia

International interest in sustainable, affordable urban food systems is increasing and this, in part, is driving interests in urban beekeeping (1). In 2012, the Australian city of Canberra was facing an emergent pollination crisis. Interaction between apiarists and the community at The Capital Region Farmers Market was the catalyst for development of a community action project to improve pollination in the city. The Canberra Urban Honey Project is a youth led initiative to promote the role of urban apiculture in sustainable food systems and is an

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innovative response to the emerging global losses of bee pollinators. The loss of bees is a potential planet wide ecological catastrophe and any education and action based program that can engage the community and provide them with an opportunity to contribute is of great value. Three years later, Canberra Urban Honey is a successful social enterprise that has reintroduced over 2 million bees into the city of Canberra, created innovative community partnerships, spread beekeeping culture and established new apiculture networks. This presentation offers international lessons relating to: - the way farmers markets can contribute to urban innovation, - ways to engage the community in apiculture; - how urban beekeeping can contribute to sustainable, affordable food systems; and - that creation of rural and urban apiculture links can contribute to the success of urban beekeeping ventures. 1 Pearson, D et al. 2014. Building environmentally sustainable food systems on informed citizen choices: Evidence from Australia, Biological Agriculture & Horticulture, 30(3): 183-197.

BRO-057

A Study on developing a non-nomadic bee-keeping model forest to promote apiculture, agroforestry and apiecotourism in Korea

Ara Seol1, Joosang Chung2, Shinyoung Park1, Wookju Jeong3, Youngji Kim3

1 Research Institute for Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University, Republic of Korea 2 Department of Forest Sciences, Seoul National University, Republic of Korea

3 Department of Landscape Architecture and Rural System Engineering, Seoul National University,

Republic of Korea

The objective of this study is to develop a non-nomadic bee-keeping model forest, in which bees are able to be fed with diverse honey plant species from spring through fall. Also the model forest has to provide diverse apiproducts, medical or edible herb species as well as the opportunity of api-ecotourism to promote the local economy of the back regions. In order to achieve the goal, we have chosen study sites and building a development project ecologically-adaptable to the sites. The project includes building a combination of tree-and-herb species as the continuous source of flower nectars for bees. The study sites will be designed to promote the api-ecotourism as well as the apiary by introducing diverse tree-and-herb species adaptable to the scenic and natural environment of the mountain land. In choosing the tree-and-herb species, the species of higher potential for medical or edible use will be preferred. This work was supported by Korea Institute of Planning and Evaluation for Technology in Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (IPET) through Agri-Bioindustry Technology Development Program, funded by Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (MAFRA) (No. 314009-3) Corresponding author: Joosang Chung (Email: jschung@snu.ac.kr)

BRO-041

Entrepreneurial development in Brazil by beekeeping

Demian Condé

SEBRAE (Brazilian Micro and Small Business Support Service), Brazil

SEBRAE (The Brazilian Micro and Small Business Support Service) is a private institution that uses public resources to support small business in Brazil. In the agribusiness sector, Sebrae works with small farmers to achieve better conditions through entrepreneurial behavior and management. Brazil has an immense plant diversity, large native forests and huge honeybee friendly crops (eucalyptus, orange, sunflower and others).

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Because of these natural wealth, Brazilian beekeeping has an enormous potential, yet it is severely damaged by the lack of formal education, technology, dedication and management skills. As of today, Sebrae supports approximately 5.439 beekeepers in Brazil to improve their life quality and their income. Altogether, we manage 28 projects, investing $ 3.4 million dollars in beekeeping, each year, all over Brazil. The projects we manage have to be adapted to each region’s specifics, but in a larger view most of them focus on Innovation and Technology, Management and Market. Also, we have actions in smaller scale, such as Geographical Indications and good practices. By providing beekeepers with technology and management, Sebrae has been able to improve life quality of many beekeepers, going from extremely low productivity to high productivity in a two or three year period. Such results are showing that with proper guidance, beekeepers in Brazil have the chance to really stand out and make a difference on the local economy and its development.

BRO-018

Crowdsourcing for starting beekeeping businesses

Milan Wiercx van Rhijn

Proup Apiculture, France

With today's worldwide economical difficulty it has become harder to get a loan for starting businesses. As a young Dutch man, starting a life in France, no certification and few financial resources, I was not eligible for a loan to get my beekeeping business started. However, I was dedicated to live my passion for beekeeping. I created a crowdsourcing project, approaching people directly without intervention of a crowdfunding website. Participants became owners of the hive, which I would manage and instead they got 40% of the honey crop. Payment was in honey, not in money. I established a secure investment by offering the opportunity for a refund: 100% for the first year. A limit of 5 hives per person was set to keep equilibrium, to avoid becoming an employee for a big investor. The participants became part of the business: bad harvests and high mortality rates would not put any pressure on me as beekeeper. Nonetheless, it created a sense of compassion from the participants: they were all part of it. After two years there is a business with 40 participants with 50 out of 60 hives. This resulted in a strong network with highly engaged ambassadors and the absence of loan. My goal for 2017 is to have 200 hives and a queen production of 1000 queens a year. I firmly believe this approach could be a tool for many other people wishing to start a beekeeping business, but have few financial resources.

BRO-055

Creation awareness in students of primary schools about importance of honey bee for society and environment

Meral Kekeçolu1, P Goç Rasgele2, F Aha3, M Kambur2

1 Düzce University, DAGEM, Turkey

2 Düzce University

3 Düzce Ü niversity, Turkey

Honey bee has an important place in human life because of bee products, such as pollen, propolis and royal jelly. More importantly that honey bees are the most effective pollinator insect group as a natural food assurance of the future. However they are growing with sting fear, not realize the importance of bees in terms of nature and natural sustainability. Therefore it was arranged a project within the framework of TUBITAK.

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The aim of that was to introduce honeybee, its function for human life and ecological equilibrium to children. Our target groups are students of primary and secondary school in rural and urban areas in Duzce province. This project was conducted with the participation of totally 80 participants at practical and theoretical educations. It was presented bee family, developmental stages of them, alternative bee products and different uses of them and how important the honeybees for human life and the effect of honeybees on pollination. Both before and after the study, it was done pre-test, post test and achievement test applications to each group in order to determine the cognitive and effective skills, ecocentric and anthropocentric perspectives at the beginning and at the end of training course. Feedbacks taken from the participants showed that the awareness was created by the training about honey bee. The students understand that there is a positive correlation between “environmental sustainability and honeybees. The importance of bees and polination was stressed through visual and print media. Acknowledgment: This study was supported by TUBITAK-4004, Project No: 115B096

Symposium: Beekeeping Sector Reviews

BRO-026

Beekeeping in Saudi Arabia: past, present, opportunities and challenges

Ahmad Alkhazim Alghamdi

Eng. Abdullah Baqshan for Bee Research, Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Food and Agricultural Science, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Beekeeping is a long-standing and one of the most important agricultural practices in rural area of Saudi Arabia. Approximately 5,000 beekeepers maintain more than one million honey bee colonies and produce approximately 9,000 metric tons of honey annually. More than 70% of the bees are still kept in traditional cylindrical hives made from various locally available materials and the remaining are kept in box hives. Seasonal shortages of bee forage and seasonal and geographic differences in bee forage availability drive many beekeepers to practice migratory beekeeping in search of better nectar and pollen resources. Many beekeepers reported migrating their bees between 3 and 6 times per annum. The average annual honey productivity of a traditional hive is 3-5 kg/annum, while that of a box hive is 5-10 kg/annum. Attractive honey market is one of the opportunities favoring the development of the beekeeping subsector in the country. Honey is deeply rooted in the Saudi Arabian culture, religion and economy. Generally, consumers pay a much higher price for locally produced honeys of known origin. The prices of locally produced honeys vary from USD 40 to USD 180 per kg. Sider (Ziziphus) honey is in especially high demand in the country. The high price of local honey has encouraged beekeepers to persist in their beekeeping practices. Currently the country imports annually more than 15,000 metric tons of table honey to fill the gaps in demand. Honey Bee Diseases and pests; extensive importation of exotic honey bee races; extended dearth periods and associated shortage

BRO-042

The beekeeping in the Republic of the Union of Myanmar

Hlaing Minoo, Siriwat Wongsiri

Maejo University, Sansai, Chiang Mai, 50290, Thailand, Myanmar

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Most of the people in Myanmar were used traditional beekeeping methods for honey Production until 1978. At 1979, United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) introduced the modern Beekeeping in Myanmar with the program on honeybee in tropical Asia. FAO program imported Honey Bees Species from US and Israel. The commercial honey bee is Apis mellifera ligustica sub species has been used in Apiculture in Myanmar imported from abroad 1979. Existing literature demonstrates that this sub species were well adapted in local seasons and local beekeeper. Nowadays the beekeeping in Myanmar has both traditional bee hives and modern standard Langstroth Bee hives. Myanmar Beekeepers have traditional beekeeping from Apis dorsata species and Apis cerana species. In 2013-2015 FAO (Myanmar) organized TOT training with the Technical Cooperation

Program (TCP) Project “Royal Jelly Production in Myanmar”. The most beekeeping productions in Myanmar are making by private sectors and some are department of Apiculture, Ministry of livestock Fisheries and Rural Development, Myanmar. Myanmar migratory beekeepers move from one area to another with blooming bee plants 3-4 times in each year. There are about 100,000 colonies in Myanmar and honey production is around 3,000 tons per year.

BRO-046

Apiculture and pollinator industry survey in Thailand

Chama Phankaew

Kasetsart University, Thailand

This study was carried out during August to October, 2014 by using questionnaires to get information from 22 beekeepers, 9 longan orchard owners and 6 lychee orchard owners. In addition, information also comes from indepth interviews with 11 bee experts, 4 bee researchers and reviewing of publications. There are 4 bee species: European honeybee, Indian honeybee, giant honeybee and stingless bees used by beekeepers in Thailand. However, the main species in the bee industry is the European honeybee with 300,000 colonies and the farm value of bee products is about 1,269 million baht. The key nectar crops are longan, lychee and white snakeroot. The key pollen crops are corn, giant mimosa and sensitive plant. These crops are mainly distributed in the northern provinces. The peak activities of honeybees are within 4 months starting in December to March. The 3 major problems faced by bee industry are food sources, Tropilaelaps mite and pesticide misuse. The bee pollination industry is most developed in the northern provinces and there is a potential to develop in off-season longan in Chanthaburi. The future of apiculture industry in Thailand is still on the rise because the demand of honey and other bee products both at national and international levels is increasing and the volumes of bee products are not sufficient at present. On the responsible use of pesticides, apart from the warning statement on the pesticide labels there are no guidelines and activities on bee safety initiated by pesticide industry and regulatory authority.

BRO-014

Reconstruction of the farmland suffered by tsunami damage struk by the Great East Japan Earthquake and revitalization of apicultural industry

Kikuji Yamaguchi1, Makoto Watanabe2, Yoshihisa Yamaguchi3

1 Institute of JRJ Apimedical Science, Japan Royal Jelly Co. Ltd.; Tohoku Fukushi University; Yunnan

Agricultural University, Japan

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2 Tohoku Fukushi University

3 Japan Royal Jelly Co. Ltd.

BACKGROUND: In the afternoon of March 11, 2011, Japan was struck by the most powerful earthquake in recorded history and the tsunami disaster's massive impact. The invaded surface area by sea water was 561km² and the farmland was 21,480ha. The Reconstruction Agency of Japan proposed "New Tohoku" Leading Model Project that supports the acceleration of leading project by organizations and corporations working for reconstruction. OBJECT: The project, reconstructing the disaster farmland with the damage-resisting farm products from salt and revitalizing apicultural industry, was applied for the grant, "New Tohoku" Leading Model Project, in 2014. The aim of the project was to grow salt resistant crops, such as rapeseed, resulting in tourist attraction, production of apicultural products, increased bee colonies as pollinating honeybee, and industrial development in relation to creation of jobs. RESULT: After granting our project, in 2014, we obtained 34ha tsunami disaster farmland at Natori area and planted rapeseed, in order to help farmers, to produce apicultural products, and to enhance bee colonies and beekeepers. THE SECOND YEAR, 2015: We will train more than 10 beekeepers and also to produce honey and royal jelly. Apicultural products, royal jelly products, honey, mead, honey ice cream will be also produced. THE FINAL GOAL: Based on the huge flower land, the reconstruction could be made with hotels, bee museum, college, hospital, worldwide tourist attraction, welfare facilities for the aged, and also apiary industry. This project was supported in part by a Grant from the Reconstruction Agency of Japan.

BRO-029

Beekeeping of Apis cerana in Korean peninsula: History, present, and future

Minsuk Oh, Seunghwan Lee

Seoul National University, Republic of Korea

Apis cerana is a honeybee species mainly exists at oriental region. In Korea, first A. cerana apiculture starts from Chinaintroduced honeybee at thousand years ago. Scale of A. cerana beekeeping industry getting bigger, ca. 300,000 colonies before 2009 in Korea, but 95% of individuals died by sacbrood virus recently and facing severe crisis. We are presenting the history, current, and future prospect of traditional beekeeping of A. cerana.

BRO-009

Can beekeeping be sustained in Nigeria?

Yusuf Adeyemo, Oluwasanjo Okunlola

Oyo State College of Agriculture and Technology, Igboora, Nigeria

Beekeeping has benefits that relate to food, medicine, economy, and increased productivity of crops and the wellbeing of the environment. This paper focuses on the constraints that can work against the sustainability of beekeeping in Nigeria. Such constraints include deforestation, bush burning, vandalism, theft and climate change. However, the following are suggested as measures that can mitigate this situation which includes; protection of existing vegetation and planting of trees, educating the Nigerian people through mass media, providing training

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for the people on beekeeping by incorporating forage tree planting and providing financial assistant, enacting enabling laws to protect the enterprise and establishment of a beekeeping research centre.

Symposium: Regional Beekeeping I

BRO-034

Factors influencing subsistent farmers’ decision to practice beekeeping in two Ogbomoso local government areas, south western Nigeria

Samuel Adelani Babarinde1, Timothy A. Adebayo1, Adebusola A Adepoju1, Adetayo D. Adeleye1, Odunyemi Ayobami1, Ibukun B. Babatunde1, Solomon Yisa2

1 Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Nigeria

2 University of Ilorin, Nigeria

A study was carried out in Ogbomoso North and South Local Government Areas, south western Nigeria between February and May, 2015 to identify the socioeconomic characteristics, types of crops grown and farm management systems practiced by subsistent farmers and analyze the factors influencing the farmers’ interest in bee keeping. Multi-stage random sampling technique was employed to select a total number of 80 respondents sample for the study. Descriptive statistics was used to explain the socio-economic characteristics while logit regression analysis was used to analyze the major determinants of farmers’ interest to practice bee keeping. The results of study revealed that farming in the area was dominated by male (90% of the respondents). Majority (45 %) of the respondents fell were aged 31-40 years. Majority (52.5%) of respondent had post primary education. Land acquisition by the majority (61.25%) was by inheritance, where they took care of permanent crops like mango, cashew, and coconut. Reasons for bee keeping as claimed by the respondents were closeness of farmland to water and ease of land acquisition. The logit regression analysis showed that the coefficients of sex and age were positively significant (P=0.05), which implies that the probability of increasing the number of male farmers and their ages in the study area would lead to the probability of increasing farmers’ interest in bee keeping. It is therefore recommended that, government should encourage more experienced aged male farmers to incorporate beekeeping into their agricultural ventures.

BRO-002

Occupational health and safety in beekeeping – Steps in risk assessment

Cengiz Erkan1, Ayhan Gosterit2

1 Yuzuncu Yl University, Turkey

2 Suleyman Demirel University, Turkey

Beekeeping, which is a significant agricultural activity, could be performed in stationary or mobile manners. Nonmigratory beekeepers utilize from local nectar and pollen sources, while migratory beekeepers follow the blossom to increase production, moving their colonies to different areas within the season. During their operations

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conducted mostly in a natural environment beekeepers face several dangers that threaten their safety and health. These dangers diversity during the stages of honey harvest and packaging, when the use of tools and equipment increases. Danger is defined as any occurrences that could cause harm and the risk is the possibility of injury or illness faced as a result of danger. Main objective of risk assessment in beekeeping is to protect the health of beekeepers and to provide safety measures. Risk assessment helps minimize possible damages resulted by beekeeping activities that could affect both the beekeepers and the environment. This study aims to scrutinize the steps of collection of the information, assessment of the risks resulted by possible danger, planning the actions that would remove the risks, and finally reporting the risk assessment, and to contribute to the realization of the concept of occupational health and safety in beekeeping.

BRO-032

Top bar honey comb hangers (HCH) for fixing and transporting honey combs on top bars

Abraham Addo-Ansah Allotey

Forestry Commission Allotey Honey Bee Farms, Ghana

The objective of this study was to design and develop Honey Comb Hanger prototypes to fix , hold in place and transport combs on top bars without break-ups. Pieces of Plywood of thickness 4 mm and width 2.5cm were used with pre-drilled holes at all its different parts to develop the following series of prototypes. 1. Two pieces of – shaped plywood of base and arm lengths 20 and10 cm respectively. 2. Two Pieces of plywood (TP) dimension 20 *2.5 cm. 3. Two Double TT- shaped-like (FP) plywood pieces of horizontal and vertical lengths 20 and10 cm respectively. 4. Tworectangle shaped (RP) plywood dimensions 20*10 cm with a 3cm extension at one of the lengths to form an arm each at its ends. In service, a pair each of the different four types of the plywood was used independently to sandwich the combs, with the TBs being at the top. 2 mm thickness Copper wires were first used to string the plywood pieces, the upper parts of the combs, and tied over the TBs. Likewise the plywood pieces and the lower comb parts were stringed by the copper wires to hold the plywood. – sandwiched-combs together. The Prototypes were used to transport combs on top bars and TBHs with combs without comb break-ups; comb fixing on TBs were less difficult. It could be used to transport beehives for pollination services, migratory beekeeping and log/cylindrical basket hive colony division. HCH reduce challenges of fixing combs whilst wearing plastic gloves

BRO-011

Management practices to avoid stings of honeybees during field work

Akpoke Chiegele Christian1, Akunne Chidiebere Emmanuel2

1 Ebonyi State agricultural development program, Nigeria

2 Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Anambra State, Nigeria

Many would-be beekeepers in most rural areas of Africa and other places who wish to improve their livelihood through beekeeping are being kept away from the profession and business due to the single reason that HONEYBEES STING. This a well-known fact that is not agreeable by many people. But have we ever thought of ourselves being the primary cause of any bee attack which is a just a defense response to protect their colony.

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Honeybees prefer not to sting because they will die as a result. A honeybee that is away from the hive foraging for nectar or pollen will rarely sting because of their seriousness on the job and the task ahead for them to accomplish. Except when stepped on or roughly handled by anything/anybody. Honeybees will actively seek out and sting when they passive their hive to be threatened. They attack people twenty to forty meters from the hive and this is certainly not good. African honeybees in America is renowned for its high defensiveness (by Eigil Holm, Denmark in Beekeeping and Development Journal, 61, Dec.2001). Considering the above facts and our year of experience working with African honeybees, this paper unveils the ignored management practices to be adopted while working with honeybees to avoid their stings. Bearing in mind that the queen bee, indoor workers, loaded incoming field worker bees, field attendants, and all field equipment MUST be positioned properly not to infuriate the innocent gentle honeybees.

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Potential of sunflower and mustard greens Brassica juncea L. for bees food related to the development of bee tourism in the village Watu Agung Pasuruan Indonesia

James Hutagalung1, Suhartatik2, Wiwin Retnowati3, Hardiyanto4, Ahmad Radjaram5

1 Departement of Parasitology Faculty of Medicine, Indonesia

2 Departement of Biochemistry Faculty of Medicine, Indonesia

3 Department of Microbiology Faculty of Medicine, Indonesia

4Departement of Embriology Faculty of Feterinary, Indonesia 5 Departement of Anality Faculty of Pharmacy, Indonesia

Background: Research on the optimization of production growth, sunflower and mustard greens, Brassica juncea L. as a producer of nectar for bees food in Indonesia is still not widely pursued. Development of sunflower and mustard Green brasica juncea L as food ingredients that produce nectar bees can help farmers implement the concept of bee grazing permanently. The method implemented by the socialization of participatory planning, a key figure approach, as well as science and technology education and denplot. The technique used (1) socialization group of beekeepers, (2) Establishment of Beekeepers group, (3) Training assistance, (4) Making stup bees, (5). Planting sunflowers and mustard Greens brasica juncea L. Research carried out on an area of 500 square meters. Research during six months from March 2014 through September 2014 in the garden in the village of Watu Agung Pasuruan. Beehive is deployed as well as 50. For each of the honeycomb or stuff consists of 4 strokes full of bees and two empty strokes beehive. The results showed the addition of honey, each 2 strokes frame stuf that had been empty increased to contain honey, so the number of strokes to 6 strokes filled with honey. Conclusion: Sunflower and mustard greens Brassica juncea L help the bees get nectar to produce honey food. Discussion: Planting sunflowers and mustard greens brasica juncea L, helping the bees can produce honey. Develop food for bees for beekeepers to help beekeepers get honey from bees

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The Tunisian experience in organic beekeeping

Abbes Saidi

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