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8/20/2019 Submission by the NSW Apiarists' Association submission to the Senate Inquiry on the importance of beekeeping.
1/23
NSW APIARISTS’ ASSOCIATION INC.
Bees and beekeepers are essential for Australia
Submission to the Australian Senate Inquiry into:
The future of the beekeeping and pollination service industries in Australia
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8/20/2019 Submission by the NSW Apiarists' Association submission to the Senate Inquiry on the importance of beekeeping.
2/23
NSW Apiarists’ Association
NSW Apiarists’ Association submission to the Australian Senate Inquiry into
The future of the beekeeping and pollination service industries in Australia page 2
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Submission to the Australian Senate Inquiry into: The future of the beekeeping and pollination service
industries in Australia ................................................................................................................................................................. 1
Case studies ........................................................................................................................................................................................... 2
Overview ................................................................................................................................................................................................ 3
Terms of Reference for the current Senate Inquiry ................................................................................................................ 4 A. The importance of beekeeping and pollination service industries from a food security, environmental and
financial point of view ...................................................................................................................................................................... 4
Key challenges .............................................................................................................................................................................. 4
Recommendations - A ................................................................................................................................................................ 5
Financial importance ................................................................................................................................................................... 6
Valuing pollination services: better crops and food security ............................................................................................. 7
Research and development: increasing production and value adding ............................................................................. 9 B. Current challenges facing the industry domestically and internationally, and its future sustainability ......... ......... 12
Key challenges ............................................................................................................................................................................ 12 Recommendations - B .............................................................................................................................................................. 12
Honey bees need flowers: access to floral resources ....................................................................................................... 13
Putting the buzz in honey beekeeping: attracting and training beekeepers ................................................................. 15
Training ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 15
C. The adequacy of the current biosecurity arrangements for imported and exported honey, apiary products,
package honey bees and queen honey bees ............................................................................................................................. 16 Key challenges ............................................................................................................................................................................ 16
Recommendations - C .............................................................................................................................................................. 16
Threats to honey bee populations: from varroa to pesticides ....................................................................................... 16 D. Australia’s food labelling requirements, and how these affect the honey beekeeping industry ............................. 19
Key challenges ............................................................................................................................................................................ 19
Recommendations - D ............................................................................................................................................................. 19
E. The recommendations from the House Standing Committee on Primary Industries and Resources 2008 report
More than Honey; the future of the Australian honey bee and pollination industries, and the Rural Affairs and
Transport References Committee 2011 report Science underpinning the inability to eradicate the Asian honey
bee. .................................................................................................................................................................................................... 21 F. Any related matters .................................................................................................................................................................. 22 Appendix 1 - References and further reading ......................................................................................................................... 23
Case studies
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8/20/2019 Submission by the NSW Apiarists' Association submission to the Senate Inquiry on the importance of beekeeping.
3/23
NSW Apiarists’ Association
NSW Apiarists’ Association submission to the Australian Senate Inquiry into
The future of the beekeeping and pollination service industries in Australia page 3
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8/20/2019 Submission by the NSW Apiarists' Association submission to the Senate Inquiry on the importance of beekeeping.
4/23
NSW Apiarists’ Association
NSW Apiarists’ Association submission to the Australian Senate Inquiry into
The future of the beekeeping and pollination service industries in Australia page 4
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8/20/2019 Submission by the NSW Apiarists' Association submission to the Senate Inquiry on the importance of beekeeping.
5/23
NSW Apiarists’ Association
NSW Apiarists’ Association submission to the Australian Senate Inquiry into
The future of the beekeeping and pollination service industries in Australia page 5
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8/20/2019 Submission by the NSW Apiarists' Association submission to the Senate Inquiry on the importance of beekeeping.
6/23
NSW Apiarists’ Association
NSW Apiarists’ Association submission to the Australian Senate Inquiry into
The future of the beekeeping and pollination service industries in Australia page 6
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10/23
NSW Apiarists’ Association
NSW Apiarists’ Association submission to the Australian Senate Inquiry into
The future of the beekeeping and pollination service industries in Australia page 10
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NSW Apiarists’ Association submission to the Australian Senate Inquiry into
The future of the beekeeping and pollination service industries in Australia page 11
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12/23
NSW Apiarists’ Association
NSW Apiarists’ Association submission to the Australian Senate Inquiry into
The future of the beekeeping and pollination service industries in Australia page 12
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NSW Apiarists’ Association submission to the Australian Senate Inquiry into
The future of the beekeeping and pollination service industries in Australia page 13
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E. The recommendations from the House Standing Committee on Primary
Industries and Resources 2008 report More than Honey; the future of the Australian
honey bee and pollination industries, and the Rural Affairs and Transport References
Committee 2011 report Science underpinning the inability to eradicate the Asian
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Appendix 1 - References and further reading
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