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NSW Apiarists’ Association

NSW Apiarists’ Association submission to the Australian Senate Inquiry into

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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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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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