Chile: Cochamó looking for mechanisms of harmonic production in the beekeeping industry

Published 2021년 1월 13일

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The article highlights efforts in Chile's Cochamó region to regulate beekeeping practices, particularly the transhumance movement of bees, to prevent overloading of flora and ensure compliance with national regulations. The Regional Director of SAG, Eduardo Monreal, emphasized the need for beekeepers to register and adhere to regulations, with penalties for non-compliance. The article also introduces an initiative by the Beekeepers Network, APIRED, to create an informative map to designate less crowded spaces for transhumant beekeepers, provided all resident beekeepers are registered. Additionally, it discusses the health surveillance measures implemented by the SAG to control bee diseases and facilitate export certification, addressing the main disease challenges faced by bees in Chile over the past five years, mainly varroasis.

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"We have collected the concern, of beekeepers of Cochamó, to implement a model of respectful management of beekeeping in the area and regulate the entry of hives and apiaries that arrive each season, which is a management practice of bees that it is allowed, known as transhumance, but it is necessary to reconcile to avoid an overload of hives, affecting the availability of flora for the bees of resident beekeepers ”, said Eduardo Monreal, Regional Director of SAG. “As a Service, our mission is to verify compliance with current regulations. In this sense, the SAG has a beekeeping traceability system that obliges beekeepers to register annually, to declare the number of hives and apiaries they have, to indicate their location, and other characteristics associated with the productive destination (honey, pollen, others ). In such a way that the first requirement for transhumants is to carry the Beekeepers Registration Form and have their Declaration of Apiaries, FRADA, up to date. ...

Source: Servicio Agricola